We were learning about this in school. I’d imagine the majority said they wouldn’t do this, but there’s definitely some who thinks it’s a good idea (like my uncle, ahem ahem).
But if you had the option to mess with genes and give you the “perfect” baby and you knew what they would look like beforehand, would you do it? You could give your child “desirable” traits while the children who don’t have those traits are inferior, or you could love your child considered “inferior” by society as they are.
Ayyyy I love this kind of discussion. Is eugenics? Is it not? Where does and boundary lie and is there a chance we’re already doing it low-key?
Five years ago there was a doctor who already got in trouble for this: He Jiankui
He saved some kids lives but what do we do know that the CRISPr gene editing tech is out of the bag and the elite can simply pay to have “flawless” children? Where does that leave everyone else? It could get really ugly if we let markets decide what is or isn’t human flaws. Actually, we kind of already do and maybe we should stop ¯\(ツ)/¯