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There’s very much an ethical problem here. Sure, it’s fairly clear-cut with some genetic issues, but there’s no clear delineation to where you’re veering into eugenics. Take children who are deaf due to a genetic defect. I’m sure most parents imagine being deaf a terrible lot in life that they’d like to spare their kids from. Then listen to actual members of the deaf community. They’re proud of their identity, they have their own language, and they’re terrified of the prospect of being essentially eliminated in just a few generations. What if we discover a few years from now that there are genetic markers for being queer? What if we can genetically engineer people to be more muscular, have a more attractive bone structure, lighter skin? Such technology doesn’t just fix genetic diseases. In a hierarchical global society, it eliminates human diversity.