If your in-utero baby tested poz of Cystic Fibrosis, a lethal condition involving just one wrong nucleotide, wouldn’t you want to snip it out..?
“But God WILLED you to die..!” —it rings just soooo hollow.
We're changing already, whether we want to or not. For every pretty girl who becomes a beautiful bride, we're using sexual selection to change if not our abilities then at least our appearance.
Who controls this? What, no one? Should it be controlled?
We are changing. We should change. We need to get smarter, with better memories. To become healthier, with longer lives; we need to better fit the challenging environment the Future has in store for us.
We are currently at the stage we were in agriculture about ten thousand years ago, just finding out what works to improve the yield; what cultivars improve disease resistance and drought tolerance. But what good is food without people to consume it?
There will be an appetite for beneficial changes. There will be a black market to supply the changes needed. Perhaps this will be the reparation needed to balance out the former black market we all abhor so vehemently.
We will change. We are changing, and we will continue changing. We Neanderthals will just have to get with the program and adapt to it.
The stars await, but the journey will be long.