Changing the childs gender is for those people who have always wanted a girl but ended up with 13 boys or some such. This I have little problem with... better then the parents wackign of the kid's wee-wong(heh.. funky word), in an attempt to make them a girl or some such. You know better to develope as a girl then to be changed(still by force) after birth. You see the change as you develop means you will likely have no problems.. afterwards.. well I dunno... that is touchy and I don't know much about that.

Letting homosexuals have kids with this tech I have no problem with. If they want kids that have thier genes let them I say.

Quote Originally Posted by Razael: The Angel Slayer
There is also talk of prenatal therapies that affect your DNA so that your child will be born with a calmer demeanor...I mean, why not breed in sub-survience?
This is where I really began to go "huh?". I am not even sure how this would work. And haven't heard much of it.

However, I must argue that making them calmer is not sub-survience. Calmer could be a good thing. Many problems are started due to being hotheaded. I know I wouldn't have minded being calmer. The problem here arises is that I think it would limit individuality somewhat. Who would want an angry child? That is the same reason I get iffy on picking physical traits.. that could easily limit individuality. With the about techniques individuality is likely to remain the same, unless science proves one sex is more capable then the other or some such. So I am iffy here. It would be good. Particually since in some instances your child won't calm no matter what. I have seen some otherwise good parents have this one child that is just a monster... it hurts the whole family.

However, I can't help but wonder if they could have done something earlier to prevent that. See a child's personality is defined alot by what parents do. Thus if you keep the kid calm and remain calm yourself there should be little need for this(it of course is more complicated then that.. but it is still possible just by how you parent).

Shrug, as long as the genetics don't turn humans into identical robots(such as taking away the ability to get angry or have any negative emotion in general) I am generally somewhat lenient on it. I probably won't use it.. but I won't limit others.

Heck a good argument in favor of "calming" the child could probably sway me.. I am really borderline there. It seems a bit much but it really depends on what it really does.