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Apr 3, 2015 8:39 PM
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Hello, and welcome to the future! Lots of things have happened since 2015, but there's something particularly interesting that I'd like to talk about. We have the capability to grow babies in laboratories now, so women don't have to give painful births anymore like our backwards ancestors, but it doesn't end there. Yeah, you heard me. You now have the capability to design your offspring as you wish! Want a 6'2 boy with blue eyes, blonde hair, and a genius brain? We can do that! But unfortunately it won't be cheap; in fact, only the richest people in the world will be able to afford it. If you have the money, you can shape your future child the same way you can create a character in a video game.

What do you think about this? Would a future where rich people have the capability to design their own super babies cause a great divide in our societies? Imagine that we have poor pleb humans on the bottom of the social hierarchy, while the test tube master race people thrive on top of them and control the world. Is this a future that you would want, or is it fucked up on so many levels? Are there any advantages or disadvantages to this? What would you think if you learned that you were designed to be a superhuman, and would you be salty if you happened to be a normal human, and had to watch the super humans surpass you in every way imaginable because of their innate superiority?

Discuss!

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Apr 3, 2015 8:41 PM
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Ergo Proxy
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Eremiel said:
Ergo Proxy

I haven't watched Ergo Proxy. : (
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Eremiel said:
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did you just ruin the plot to an anime i'm currently watching?
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Since this is the future...

Can I somehow age him to my exact age, or just make a clone? If so he is going to look exactly like me.

But this is interesting, there would be a lot less ugly people in general.
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I dont want a designer test tube baby i want a cat-girl or bunny-girl.
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Obviously it's a step in the right direction, it's a way to ensure beauty in society.

In an ideal world this would be the case of all "births" think about it, you can design people to fill the roles that they need. You don't need a genious to be a plumber, but you can still ensure that the plumber is beautiful.

You also wouldn't have the problem with women getting pregnant, going on maternity leave etc. So you would have an effective, efficient and beautiful society.

This kind of thechnology really is the future. And it's a great alternative to sterilizing the ugly, I can see it being the next step as a society really.
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idk but it's funny you said "blue eyes, blonde hair" and "master race"



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traed said:
I dont want a designer test tube baby i want a cat-girl or bunny-girl.

You can design a tube cat-girl or bunny-girl if you want, too.
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Alarei said:
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did you just ruin the plot to an anime i'm currently watching?
nooooooooooooo <_< the plot isn't about artifical wombs (mostly)
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Gattaca?


Thats really creepy and unnatural and will probably come back to fuck with us later in some way
Apr 3, 2015 8:46 PM

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I'm gonna miss these simple days
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Hitler's dream
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Time and again this thought has entered my mind, but we already have more than enough ability to influence our offspring.

If you wanted to experiment with different appearances or personalities, there's always the option of character customization (in video games, as you have already alluded to).

At the end of the day, I feel as though creating others in our own image is a primordial and universal human desire.

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Gattaca?



Gattaca.

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Moog- said:
traed said:
I dont want a designer test tube baby i want a cat-girl or bunny-girl.

You can design a tube cat-girl or bunny-girl if you want, too.
But then wouldnt theyd still be a baby? I dont want to take care of a baby.
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Objurgo said:
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Gattaca?



Gattaca.


God no the human race will overheat due to those thick eyebrows
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I like this idea. It's definitely a step into the right direction. If man are capable of creating perfect or superior human beings than why not do it? Who cares about the poor, and whether or not it's fair for them not being able to afford it. Society loves to create a distinction between the wealthy and the poor anyways. If this wasn't the case their would be no poverty in the world.
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Babies are gross and irritating and none of them can fight worth a damn
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Bambi_ said:
I like this idea. It's definitely a step into the right direction. If man are capable of creating perfect or superior human beings than why not do it? Who cares about the poor, and whether or not it's fare for them not being able to afford it. Society loves to create a distinction between the wealthy and the poor anyways. If this wasn't the case their would be no poverty in the world.


But they'll take our jobs <:(
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Babies are gross and irritating and none of them can fight worth a damn
Without so much as lifting a finger, babies have already taken you down, I see.

A formidable foe indeed.
traed said:
Moog- said:

You can design a tube cat-girl or bunny-girl if you want, too.
But then wouldnt theyd still be a baby? I dont want to take care of a baby.
Let's imagine that you have enough money to pay for someone to raise the child on your behalf. A neko-maid, even (if that is to your taste).
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Objurgo said:
Bambi_ said:
I like this idea. It's definitely a step into the right direction. If man are capable of creating perfect or superior human beings than why not do it? Who cares about the poor, and whether or not it's fare for them not being able to afford it. Society loves to create a distinction between the wealthy and the poor anyways. If this wasn't the case their would be no poverty in the world.


But they'll take our jobs <:(
The competition will make normal people strive to be better.
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Bambi_ said:
Objurgo said:


But they'll take our jobs <:(
The competition will make normal people strive to be better.


Or, if we start a pile we can prevent the future from happening. Then there won't be anyone who can take our jobs!

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Gattaca.


God no the human race will overheat due to those thick eyebrows



YOU DARE SIN AGAINST MUGIS' SWEET BROWS?!
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Deserada said:
Aggra-Dearheart said:
Babies are gross and irritating and none of them can fight worth a damn
Without so much as lifting a finger, babies have already taken you down, I see.

A formidable foe indeed.


I challenge any babies in this thread to immediate irl fisticuffz

WHO DARES

WHO DARES
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Objurgo said:
Bambi_ said:
I like this idea. It's definitely a step into the right direction. If man are capable of creating perfect or superior human beings than why not do it? Who cares about the poor, and whether or not it's fare for them not being able to afford it. Society loves to create a distinction between the wealthy and the poor anyways. If this wasn't the case their would be no poverty in the world.


But they'll take our jobs <:(


They take our jobs, they take our women.

They pee in the pool when they go swimming.

They live in the house the government giv'em

The Master Race.
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Designer babies are bad (it's a form of Eugenics) and should be banned under international law.


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Moog- said:
Hello, and welcome to the future! Lots of things have happened since 2015, but there's something particularly interesting that I'd like to talk about. We have the capability to grow babies in laboratories now, so women don't have to give painful births anymore like our backwards ancestors

Links? Can't find any articles on that
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Let's grow them and steal their organs like they do in The Island and Never Let Me Go before it's too late!
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Let's grow them and steal their organs like they do in The Island and Never Let Me Go before it's too late!

Or unwind!
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It doesn't appeal to me, but whatever.

I'm just wondering if lab-grown babies would suffer from some sort of discrimination. Or if non-lab grown babies will become the "lesser" race, so to speak.

Regardless, when you start to pick and choose what you want your baby to look like, then you're not ready to become a parent.
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Hoppy said:
Designer babies are bad (it's a form of Eugenics) and should be banned under international law.


I don't really see the problem with improving the human race, people want quality and this will give it to them. Ever since the dawn of time, man has strived for excellence, this is just another step along the way.
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It doesn't appeal to me, but whatever.

I'm just wondering if lab-grown babies would suffer from some sort of discrimination. Or if non-lab grown babies will become the "lesser" race, so to speak.

Regardless, when you start to pick and choose what you want your baby to look like, then you're not ready to become a parent.
but but neko girls :c
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traed said:
But then wouldnt theyd still be a baby? I dont want to take care of a baby.
Let's imagine that you have enough money to pay for someone to raise the child on your behalf. A neko-maid, even (if that is to your taste).
id have to wait too long for her to be older if its same as any human and if its faster aging shed get too old too fast then die and id be sad ;_;
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I don't really see the problem with improving the human race


Lesser people are always aware that they are lesser people, and they fucking hate it
They're also the majority, so everything needs to stay stuck in their quagmire for the sake of their feelings, it seems
Apr 3, 2015 9:11 PM

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It's a horrendous future, though there's still the possibility of a new French revolution (world wide scale).
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Hoppy said:
Designer babies are bad (it's a form of Eugenics) and should be banned under international law.


I don't really see the problem with improving the human race, people want quality and this will give it to them. Ever since the dawn of time, man has strived for excellence, this is just another step along the way.


There will be better ways of doing this in the future.


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people want quality and this will give it to them

... Quality of a child? Children are not objects with differing value. Jfc.
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WeebSpaceCommie said:
I don't really see the problem with improving the human race


Lesser people are always aware that they are lesser people, and they fucking hate it
They're also the majority, so everything needs to stay stuck in their quagmire for the sake of their feelings, it seems


Exaclty, they need to come to terms with it and be willing to let society progress, besides it will take many generations for the world to get to the place it should be. And by that time the people that oppose progress will already be dead. There is no point in holding back a bright future because you don't like it, when you won't live to see it anyways.

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It's a horrendous future, though there's still the possibility of a new French revolution (world wide scale).


Why would you want that though, the french revolution was kind of a mess.
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WeebSpaceCommie said:
people want quality and this will give it to them

... Quality of a child? Children are not objects with differing value. Jfc.
Some people seem to see it that way.
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There will be better ways of doing this in the future.


But why wait for some future magic technology that may or may not happen. If we focus on this now, it will probably help us develop better ways if anything.

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WeebSpaceCommie said:
people want quality and this will give it to them

... Quality of a child? Children are not objects with differing value. Jfc.

Yes, people have quality, there are good people, bad people etc. And some traits are considered qualities. Thus Children by this logic have quality, and thus their value should be possible to measure. However as I said in an earlier post, every child doesn't need to be of the same value. If you design a plumber, you don't need the person to have a genious mind etc.
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Aggra-Dearheart said:
Lesser people are always aware that they are lesser people, and they fucking hate it
They're also the majority, so everything needs to stay stuck in their quagmire for the sake of their feelings, it seems


There is no point in holding back a bright future because you don't like it, when you won't live to see it anyways.


Human ego and petty spite are powerful motivations best not underestimated
There is nothing that people (including me) won't do for either, even if that means destroying everything else around them
What chance could there really be for this species?
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marriage said:

... Quality of a child? Children are not objects with differing value. Jfc.
Some people seem to see it that way.
Teeth are a pretty good indicator of the quality of a human, at least cosmetically.

As are fingernails, toenails, and hair. They give a pretty good indicator of quality of life, and are still used in forensics extensively.
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It reduces genetic diversity. Let's say a deadly pathogen decides to pop up out of nowhere and it pretty much only affects this master race. Good game master race. Genetic diversity allows for evolution. Eh, lab-grown babies seem unethical. Doesn't seem natural in anyway.
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... Quality of a child? Children are not objects with differing value. Jfc.

Yes, people have quality, there are good people, bad people etc. And some traits are considered qualities. Thus Children by this logic have quality, and thus their value should be possible to measure. However as I said in an earlier post, every child doesn't need to be of the same value. If you design a plumber, you don't need the person to have a genious mind etc.

Thats a dangerous mentality to have. You shouldnt ever become a parent if all you want is to be related to someone who will eventually give you money and a sense of pride later down the road. No loving parent measures the literal quality of their child and anyone who wants to design a perfect baby with predefined everything is not fit to become a parent due to pure selfishness. If that kid ends up not being exactly what they wanted then Im sure theyll resent it since they bothered to go to a lab to pay money to create a baby.

Basically babies should not be treated like customisable objects like shoes
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WeebSpaceCommie said:

Yes, people have quality, there are good people, bad people etc. And some traits are considered qualities. Thus Children by this logic have quality, and thus their value should be possible to measure. However as I said in an earlier post, every child doesn't need to be of the same value. If you design a plumber, you don't need the person to have a genious mind etc.

Thats a dangerous mentality to have. You shouldnt ever become a parent if all you want is to be related to someone who will eventually give you money and a sense of pride later down the road. No loving parent measures the literal quality of their child and anyone who wants to design a perfect baby with predefined everything is not fit to become a parent due to pure selfishness. If that kid ends up not being exactly what they wanted then Im sure theyll resent it since they bothered to go to a lab to pay money to create a baby.

Basically babies should not be treated like customisable objects like shoes
I could not have said it any better myself.
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Basically babies should not be treated like customisable objects like shoes
That's the thing though. Whether you want to or not, every action you make beginning with the act of choosing a partner to have a child with is part of that customization process. What one would imagine is left to chance with genetics is mostly predictable, even.

This entire system isn't necessary, and while it could be interpreted as devaluing the individual in a way, there is still a massive investment to be made (elsewhere) in forming a relationship, however you first meet them.

Now if you only had to make some drop-down choices on a GUI to have your ideal individual poof right into existence in front of you, it's a different case altogether. At that point it's more like you sought them out of a crowd.

In any case, this type of experience is already available for us, you just have to seize the right opportunities.
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Thats a dangerous mentality to have. You shouldnt ever become a parent if all you want is to be related to someone who will eventually give you money and a sense of pride later down the road. No loving parent measures the literal quality of their child and anyone who wants to design a perfect baby with predefined everything is not fit to become a parent due to pure selfishness. If that kid ends up not being exactly what they wanted then Im sure theyll resent it since they bothered to go to a lab to pay money to create a baby.

Basically babies should not be treated like customisable objects like shoes


Sure not every kid would turn out perfect, at least not in the beginning, but in the end you would have technology that was able to give you exactly what you wanted. Besides, tons of people dislike the children that they decided to make themselves, going to a lab you would increase your chances of getting what you want.

And besides, for the Greater Good sacrifices have to be made. If you need to sacrifice some "love" in order to improve the human race, then so be it. Love is just a trick your mind plays on you, nothing more, in essence.
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new technology is always expensive but as years go by the technology becomes more efficiently made then the price will become cheaper, same is true with lab-grown babies and eugenics

i say it will be the future considering that in rich/developed countries the birthrate and fertility rate are going low so one thing to maintain or sustain their population is through this things
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Besides, tons of people dislike the children that they decided to make themselves, going to a lab you would increase your chances of getting what you want.

And besides, for the Greater Good sacrifices have to be made. If you need to sacrifice some "love" in order to improve the human race, then so be it. Love is just a trick your mind plays on you, nothing more, in essence.

This is the edgiest thing Ive ever read all day. Im sure Hitler would agree with the whole "greater good" thing. Honestly you need to get out more, go to church and hug your parents, no joke.


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Basically babies should not be treated like customisable objects like shoes
That's the thing though. Whether you want to or not, every action you make beginning with the act of choosing a partner to have a child with is part of that customization process. What one would imagine is left to chance with genetics is mostly predictable, even.

Dating someone who you find attractive isnt the same as choosing features out of a menu for a baby. Liking them is the main reason, having cute kids will just be a bonus, but the majority of people who try to have children are not doing it just to show off how cute it will be. And if they are they shouldnt have kids
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It reduces genetic diversity. Let's say a deadly pathogen decides to pop up out of nowhere and it pretty much only affects this master race. Good game master race. Genetic diversity allows for evolution. Eh, lab-grown babies seem unethical. Doesn't seem natural in anyway.
What if it can be used to increase diversity?
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