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Should parents be allowed to genetically enhance their children?

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idiot

The first objection

You're not engaging, you're just insulting. That tells me you don't actually have a position to defend on genetic enhancement. So let me hand you the weakest argument your side makes: "Parents should enhance their kids because it gives them advantages." Wrong. It creates a biological caste system where only the wealthy access superior genes, turning human inequality from circumstantial into permanent, heritable hierarchy. Poverty becomes genetic destiny. You can't reform that away. So either defend enhancement despite that dystopia, or admit the real argument is just "the rich deserve better children." Which is it?

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idiot

First rebuttal

You're not engaging, you're just insulting. That tells me you don't actually have a position to defend on genetic enhancement. So let me hand you the weakest argument your side makes: "Parents should enhance their kids because it gives them advantages." Wrong. It creates a biological caste system where only the wealthy access superior genes, turning human inequality from circumstantial into permanent, heritable hierarchy. Poverty becomes genetic destiny. You can't reform that away. So either defend enhancement despite that dystopia, or admit the real argument is just "the rich deserve better children." Which is it?

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