I think it’s morally important that we make this choice increasingly accessible, and fight any bigotry against children born with this method and bigotry against their parents. It would take a pretty niche moral stance and cost benefit analysis to make this morally imperative.
I suspect bigotry against children born this way would not work, just because they would be impossible to identify. (Presumably most of them would not even know themselves).
Although a future world where someone says: “phwa! You are only smarter and hotter because of gross polygenic screening your parents cheated into you.” Reply: “But, I am a lonely child selected from 4 embryos, you have 4 less successful siblings, so you are more selected than I am.”
Yes, I might write later about how to make this cheaper. Though what I would write may have limited relevance, as I expect gene editing methods to surpass simple embryo selection within the next ten years.
I think it’s morally important that we make this choice increasingly accessible, and fight any bigotry against children born with this method and bigotry against their parents. It would take a pretty niche moral stance and cost benefit analysis to make this morally imperative.
I suspect bigotry against children born this way would not work, just because they would be impossible to identify. (Presumably most of them would not even know themselves).
Although a future world where someone says: “phwa! You are only smarter and hotter because of gross polygenic screening your parents cheated into you.” Reply: “But, I am a lonely child selected from 4 embryos, you have 4 less successful siblings, so you are more selected than I am.”
Yes, I might write later about how to make this cheaper. Though what I would write may have limited relevance, as I expect gene editing methods to surpass simple embryo selection within the next ten years.