For now, the rich are more than welcome to keep their idiot choices to fuck with a thing we don't fully understand.

I have a form of Cystic Fibrosis. That's enough horror without it being a thing my idiot parents did to me on purpose in hopes of raiding my IQ.

There is some evidence that some genetic disorders impact brain function and tend to correlate to higher IQs, not lower ones. From what I gather, CF seems to be one of them.

I've made my peace with the hand I was dealt at birth and I'm pretty good at looking for the silver lining. I doubt I could so easily make my peace with it if I learned my parents thought that having a high IQ was more valuable than having functional lungs and a functional digestive tract.

> and a functional digestive tract.

Different disease to yours but I hear that, I never realised how important that was until mine went sideways, it affects everything.

You appear to take an extreme stance.

Try a different argument: If your parents knew there was a high probability that their child would inherit genes making CF an aspect of their lives, would they try to change that even at potential risk.

As a parent myself there is very little I wouldn't do for my child.

I can't imagine the pain CF has caused you and the sacrifices you've had to make. If I were your parent, my desire to not put you through pain would be invariably high.

Isn't that one element of exploration in foundations looking for a cure?

It seems transparency, the longer term impacts, the tradeoffs we will face that we just don't know. There is a cold logic that accompanies that line of thinking. I am not saying one way or another, I just feel it is worth echoing from a purely logical standpoint.

No, I am not taking an extreme position.

Saying that trying to make designer babies comes with potential downside that is potentially horrifying is not an extreme position. It also isn't the same as arguing that people with known genetic defects should be denied the opportunity to try to have children who lack that defect.

Isn't that one element of exploration in foundations looking for a cure?

I've grown vastly healthier while the entire world calls me crazy and accuses me of making that up. I've done so largely via diet and lifestyle.

Based on that, my view is that the obsession with Oo, Shiny! tech solutions expected to create some slam-dunk solution actually hinders real progress. It causes the world to largely overlook more prosaic solutions with more immediate pay-off but less glamor.

The same can be said for generational wealth, education, culture, language, and even names.