Unethical or advancement ... or both?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4227554.stm

What you have here is a bunch of comments talking about natural selection and darwinism almost in a religious context. Then you have comments by others who strongly disagree.

It seems to come down to worldview and what you see as the ultimate right and wrong for mankind. Those who think we're nothing more than developed apes are bound to say 'shoot to the stars' all you can. Those who do not, are going to think harder on the issue and ask 'is there a reason to stop or curtail our playing with life itself?'

Personally, I am all for developing operational science, but there should be boundaries in place which cannot be shot down by every liberal or human rights group out there. There are certain natural barriers in place within nature that I believe prevent us from creating a nightmare we cannot fathom as of yet. We tend to think we are so smart, yet man has written for as long as he's known how to write, of the potential horrors that could face us if we throw sense and ethics out altogether and become slaves of science and build a new religion out of humankind itself.

A baby should be biologically made from a mother and a father. End of story. Yes, offer genetic treatment if you like. But not anything which could lay a claim to any 'second party' to state that genetically, some of that child belongs to them.

Children are not a right, they are a privaledge. We tend to think of them as a right these days, because so many of us can have children. Sometimes there are bigger reasons than we can grasp going on around us that dictate why sometimes we cannot always have what we want out of life.

I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I do think man is currently facing the temptations to become increasingly arrogant, and pride will come before a fall. I say that solemly, but I know very well that arrogant man will have the smirk wiped off his face as every generation before us has done. We are incredibly arrogant to assume we are so different this time.