Eugenics, In theory & practice Options

[PaulAllen]

Eugenics is the idea of altering human heredity to benefit people, such as genetically implementing defenses against disease. But it can also be used to create designer babies that look however you could want. There are certainly benefits and many risks. After World War II, when the Nazis' horrific eugenics program was revealed to the rest of the world, eugenics essentially dropped out of scientific vocabulary and has since become a largely ignored subject. But as science discovers more and more about genetics and how heredity works and can be altered, eugenics is possibly one of the most sensitive bioethics issues of the 21st century.

Thoughts on its allowance? Regulations and restrictions and ways of enforcing them? Altruism or playing God?

[demolished]

But it can also be used to create designer babies that look however you could want.

In other words, it's commonly known as "genetic engineering".

The idea of modifying makes me sick. It defeats the purpose of life and living if people can’t accept who they are. How could you love others when you don't love yourself? How could people like you when you don't appreciate yourself? There are many things in life that we can’t change, but we learn to accept it. Not only it disrupts nature, it makes humanity more vulnerable to depreciated flaws and degrades the values of flaws.

Flaws are what make us stronger.

[PaulAllen]

In other words, it's commonly known as "genetic engineering".

Not exactly, genetic engineering is used more commonly on plants and whatnot simply defined as a change, while eugenics applies specifically to bettering humanity, with altruistic ideology in mind.

Personally, if we eradicated all diseases from humanity, and with world population already on the uprise and resourceful being stretched, a new generation of babies immune to everything that will live for well over a hundred years healthily probably isn't the best idea. But when you think of all the children born with Down's or physical disability that we could (theoretically) "save", it sort of adds another perspective. If you were a parent told your children was going to have some terrible malady, wouldn't you want to fix it?