agent-maroon said:
Natural selection & genetics have worked for something like 3.5 billion years. Mankind itself is the current end product of these forces. Why is it this way? Because it is sustainable and it works. Now man with his science and arrogance believes that it can replace this with something better? Might as well think that we can change the climate driven by a star 90+ million miles away.
Libs - if you have no concept of what evil looks like then please understand that this is what evil looks like.
I'll make a counter argument just for fun. You cite the benefits of natural selection, but natural selection is flawed. It's only designed to get us to reproductive age. Natural selection doesn't produce traits that are useful to a person above a certain age (I think. Not a natural selection expert-I'm ready to listen and learn from the more educated here). Also, natural selection can't keep up with the radically changing world. Natural selection developed over a long time, to design humans fit to survive and reproduce in the world. But the traits we built over the ages helped us survive living in caves. These may not be the same traits required for the modern world.
You say it is evil. It is certainly easy to see evil uses this can be put to, as is the case with many scientific changes. Would you agree that there are also non-evil uses to it? Would it be evil for a couple to put their egg and sperm into an artificial womb to have a baby in cases where the woman has a condition that makes her womb not work properly? I don't see evil in that choice.
What about a prospective mother who struggles with substance abuse who wants to protect her developing child from a potential relapse? What about a female athlete or actress or woman serving in the Military who has a scheduled deployment coming up? She could feel pressure to use the artificial womb so her career stays on track. It gets tricky real fast.
WRT genetic modification, that's all just a matter of how far is too far. If you have a history of breast cancer in your family and docs could scrub the breast cancer vulnerability gene from your baby, would you do it? Is that evil?