Why Designer Babies are a Fucking Disaster
The scientists are at it again. Now they want to rewrite the human genome like it's a buggy software update. They call it genetic engineering. They use fancy words like CRISPR because they think it makes them sound clever. But let’s be totally honest here. It just means rich bastards paying to design their own kids. We’re talking about creating a whole new race of genetically modified shitesacks. It’s terrifying.
Don't get me wrong. Curing hereditary diseases sounds great on paper. If you can delete a gene for a terrible illness, do it. Nobody wants people suffering. But humans are greedy, stupid animals. We don't stop at fixing problems. Look at what we did to dogs. We took wolves, beautiful majestic creatures, and we cross-bred them until we got pugs. Pugs can’t even breathe because their faces look like they hit a wall at sixty miles an hour. That’s what we do when we play designer. We create miserable, wheezing monstrosities for our own amusement.
Now imagine that exact same human stupidity applied to children. Rich people aren't going to stop at health. They’ll be in the clinic demanding modifications. They’ll want a kid with blue eyes, who grows to six feet tall, and understands advanced calculus at age three. You’ll have couples arguing over the menu. They’ll be picking hair colour and athletic ability like they're ordering a pizza. It’s mental.
And what happens to the normal kids? The ones whose parents couldn't afford the five-hundred-grand upgrade? They’ll be completely fucked. You think the class divide is bad now? Wait until the upper class is literally a different species. You’ll go for a job interview against a bloke who was engineered in a lab to never sleep and have a photographic memory. You won't stand a chance. The rest of us will just be the genetic bin-juice of the planet.
We already know how this ends because we’ve seen humans try to control nature before. Look at the cane toads in Australia. They introduced them to eat beetles, and now the whole country is just covered in toxic, mutant lumps. We ruin everything we touch because we think we’re smarter than we actually are. We’re just gibbons with smartphones and inflated egos.
We can’t even fix the potholes in the road, but we think we can redesign the human soul. If you let these corporate wankers start slicing and dicing our DNA, we’ll end up with a world full of identical, boring, psychopathic super-models. Nature spent millions of years making us beautifully flawed, weird, and interesting. Let’s not let a bloke in a white lab coat turn us into a premium subscription service.