The article talks about how the issue of designing babies is very controversial. Some places, like China, people are okay with this and are interested in the research, but in some places such as Canada and France, they have gone as far as passing laws prohibiting scientist from altering genes. This also can create tension between those countries because of their opposing views. Also in the article it discusses how scientist are yet to discover how to affect the genes that have involvement with people being smart, athletic, and even social. Those genes are hard to figure out because they also need to look out how they interact with a child's behavior and environmental influence.
I believe that designing your own baby is wrong in some ways, but can possibly be beneficial. For example scientist believe that they might be able to create a baby free from birth defects. I feel like things like this can be good, but sometimes it can be taken too far. And even if your kid has one, you learn to love them. Also I hope people do not figure out how to give babies traits like athleticism and intelligence because then people will be choosing their baby like they choose what they want on their Chipotle burrito. Also I think if your baby isn't as social or athletic as you wanted them to be, you love them no matter what and learn that they can be something they wanna be, not that you want them to be. But if you can choose that kind of stuff, you don't learn to have that connection with them.
In conclusion, babies should not be designed unless its a hundred percent necessary, and in a lot of cases, I doubt it is.
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