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This question asks us about our beliefs on designer babies and to discuss the pros and cons, and then finally to kind of differentiate between designer babies and the idea of picking a donor sperm or egg based on the characteristics of the donor, such as traits, intelligence, and physical characteristics.
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So let's start out with this first one, beliefs, and we'll just list it out as pros and cons.
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So pros and cons.
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And of course, these have to be tailored to you specifically.
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So you have to come up with these on your own.
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I'm just going to give you some ideas to think about to get the ball rolling.
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And if you put your thinking cap on, together with these ideas, maybe you can come up with some good answer here.
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So what are the possible pros, you know? and obviously come up with your own.
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But what are some potential benefits of the designer babies? well, reduction in genetic diseases.
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Because if we can screen out the parents and we can make sure that there are no mutations, we can have a better probability of ensuring that the child is not going to have any genetic diseases.
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What's another pro? you can somewhat, quote unquote, guarantee a healthy child, kind of going along with the first one, but also you can kind of look at it in the sense of predisposition.
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So they're not necessarily genetic diseases, but you can also guard against predispositions to develop, let's say, diabetes, or obesity, or hypertension, right? let's put down one more pro.
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Let's see if we can think of another one.
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The other pro that you could possibly think of would, prop, i mean, it can really be up to you...