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Question has huge implications. Given the possibility of fully screening the genes of an unborn children very early on pregnancy... we are less than a step away from people having children suiting their whims. Since we know that's going to happen, I put forward an ethical case for gene therapy allowing parents to choose positive or neutral characteristics for their children instead of having them selected like that, because even if it is made illegal, that's what people are going to do.

Yes, such gene therapy will dehumanize us even further, you could argue. Like "only today, special triplets for half the price: a blonde, a redhead and a brunette to color your home!". But yeah... I'd say we've always been commodities at the hands of each other and it's only going to become a bit more obvious.

Wow... that's what I call straying off topic. I need to sleep. To answer the question on the OP, I'd say yes only if it was a male, because I'm such a disgusting, perverted and petty creature. No, I kid, I kid. But I think the existence of a gay gene is very unlikely though, so I'll never have to face this question for real.