| Mr Khan said: While it was a victory for GLBT folks to get their status classified as biological, but then that does raise a host of problems. I doubt they'd like being called mutants (which strictly technically would be true), anymore than they liked the insistence that their lifestyle was a choice (which still persists itself in some sectors).
Raises interesting ethical questions, as to whether it would be right to "cure" homosexuality. Also raises the intersting idea of whether we could genetically engineer race, which would also lead to a whole host of fun political/philosophical dilemmas. |
It is interesting.
I mean... on the one hand, it feels wrong to "cure" someone of homosexuality.
On the otherhand. It would probably only be beneficial.
Even taking bigotry out of the equation, your dating pool is like a tenth of the size of heterosexual couples.
I think I have an off the wall solution. Instead of turning the gene off... turn it on. There won't be anymore teen pregnancies or unwanted pregnancies, people will only have children when they want them.
Ethically though, I don't really see a problem with genetic engineering... at least not the "new kind" WIth gene therapy and all that.
It just gets a bad rap because of Eugenics and all that.
Genetic Engineering to cure disesases and potential obesity and heart problems is really nothing different then vacinations. They're just vacinations before you are born.
EDIT: Oh misread you, you meant a persons race. That'd probably be waaaay to complicated. Race is more the skincolor afterall... facial bones a different and a host of other minor things. I mean think about it... a White person in blackface doesn't look Black. Neither would a black person look asian if the skin colour was changed.
