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[Psychoward]

Goodbye gingers.

Lmao

 

[Volimar]

Goodbye gingers.

This really is the darkest timeline.

 

[jstripes]

Goodbye gingers.

Quickly scanning through the thread I read that as "Goodbye gamers."

 

[azyless]

That's great. I had a class on this last year at uni. We even had an hilarious mock debate about it, I can't wait to see actual politicians bring up the same ridiculous conservative points we made.

 

[PSqueak]

I think y'all are looking at the designer babies problem from the wrong angle, y'all are thinking "but its against god" anti science angles, but the real worry about designer babies, what happens when the entities making Designer Babies possible, be it doctors, hospitals or corporations, begin to claim they have a degree of legal ownership over the baby?

 

[Plywood]

I'd like a designer baby

 

[Skatterd]

Ah, there it is, the next great debate

 

[kswiston]

what happens when the entities making Designer Babies possible, be it doctors, hospitals or corporations, begin to claim they have a degree of legal ownership over the baby?

Kids at school make fun of you for being poor because you are the LG model instead of the Apple model.

 

[PSqueak]

Kids at school make fun of you for being poor because you are the LG model instead of the Apple model.

Joke is on apple kids, they'll be obselete and need to be replaced when they turn 5, LG kid will at least get to like age 12.

 

[JesseZao]

They're not splicing in new vectors or anything. I see nothing wrong with this. It's a microorganism transplant.

 

[DragonSworne]

I never knew that about mitochondria. So there's no chance of the parents nucleus replicating bad mitochondria because they're a completely separate. Good info sir.

How exactly did they figure this out? That midochondria was a separate life form?

 

[TheMan]

I won't stand in the way of technological progress, but sometimes I wonder if people should stop being so vain and just adopt. The world doesn't need you to have kids, there are plenty that need a home.

 

[Dislocated]

But it's against gawd.

I don't know, historically I feel like God's been pretty into babies.

Spoiler

That sounded better in my head...

but seriously, I feel like this is a sticky "debate" because what's the argument--"Yep, we sure do want those kids to die"?

 

[kswiston]

How exactly did they figure this out? That midochondria was a separate life form?

Perhaps a tad technical if you have zero science education, but wikipedia is good for summaries on scientific theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis

Eukaryotes are plants, animals, and fungi. All three kingdoms have cells with membrane-bound organelles like mitochondria or chloroplasts (in plants to allow them to photosynthesize). Bacteria and other early forms of life are prokaryotes. They do not have organelles, and are typically much smaller and less complex. Mitochondria have a lot of features in common with prokaryotes.

EDIT:

Here's a TED-ed video on the subject that doesn't require prior science knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7kAt97XYU

 

[CadetMahoney]

I have a feeling designer babies will be the go-to for the rich and celebs.

It will be kinda like that have and have-nots in films like Elysium.

 

[Ultrarobotninja]

This is big.... critics claim this is the first step to a designer baby, but the idea is to stop diseases which get passed from Mother to baby...





http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38328097

 

[Transhuman]

I won't stand in the way of technological progress, but sometimes I wonder if people should stop being so vain and just adopt. The world doesn't need you to have kids, there are plenty that need a home.

Hear hear.

 

[old manatee]

Why stop at 3?

 

[Alienfan]

I'm still not wholely convinced designer babies are 100% a bad idea. The practical uses for this procedure, involve something as helpful as preventing genetic life changing disease, to something as minor as choosing your child's eye colour

 

[mugurumakensei]

this is how parasite Eve starts. Mitochondrial DNA sequencing...

 

[Seraph_Nicholas]

This is all great stuff. As a living, breathing product of this field of study (Well, the most advanced IVF the late 80s had, at least), I'm all in favor of whatever can be done to help parents and kids be healthy.

 

[Air]

They're not splicing in new vectors or anything. I see nothing wrong with this. It's a microorganism transplant.

Put this way, I can see the appeal. I'm always hesitant when it comes to the idea of designer babies though. This should be limited to only issues concerning ones health I think