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LUVMBDiesels · #15 09-21-2007, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Benzadmiral

If couples/women can pick the sex of their child, and allow only the ones they want to go to term, I suspect that a majority of the time they'll elect to have a boy.

Now what happens? A surfeit of male babies. Females become more valuable due to scarcity; males are surplus; their value (assuming a technological society with no heavy labor and little war) drops. Those other two Horsemen, Supply and Demand, ride again.

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Hey this has already happened in China. Now there is such a shortage of girls being raised there (as opposed to being adopted by Americans) that if you have a girl you can write your own ticket as the parents of boys ply you with gifts and cash for the privilege of marrying her to their little prince. It is now common for girls to get engaged at birth as the parents of boys swoop in to catch her before she is betrothed to another boy.

As far as Eugenics goes, I am all for the ability of parents to try and produce the best offspring possible. it is the promise that Darwin gave us of survival of the fittest. Humans kind of do that already in our mating rituals. However, we as a species have been holding ourselves back. Of course I don't believe in forced sterilizations, but if people who have the money and ability to try and improved upon the genetic stock they should be allowed to do so. In time we could eliminate most inherited diseases that way and who knows, maybe come up with a smarter, longer lived, stronger,etc. individual as well. We must not be afraid of the future.

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