If you could choose your child's genetics, what would you choose?

I'd change your daughter's breast size.

 

my teeth and his eyesight. i figure it would save us $4000 easily per kid. i never had braces and he has perfect eye sight.

 

So because you can't make them completely healthy, you also wouldn't want to at least make them immune to cancer? That doesn't make any sense to me.

 

picking my kids' eye color is entirely different than giving himi a vaccination to prevent a killer disease.

 

But you said none of the above. By your logic, shouldn't Immunity to Cancer at least make your list?

 

None. I will take whatever God gives me.

 

god is giving you the ability to choose

 

There will always be costs and risks involved to something like this.

Besides, some of these options aren't like polio vaccinations. They're more like Botox injections.

Well the choice in this respect is beyond deciding whether to eat a burrito or a pizza for lunch, but rather one decides to have enough faith in their Creator to provide what's best for him/her/them.

 

I choose to leave it up to him.

 

Exactly same reason why I don't take medicine. If god chooses for me to live, I'll let him make that choice for me.

 

Perhaps I didn't state it correctly. I wouldn't be opposed to everyone being immune to cancer or every other disease, that would be great, but my point was I wouldn't genetically change them, likely for any reason.

I just don't think that it's the right thing to do.

My philosophy has always been that you are never given more adversity than you can handle... and trying to beat that perspective by genetically altering a child is not something I would do.

 

I would pick the my kids farts don't stink.

 

I didn't read the list very carefully before posting!

 

but by definition, isn't something that results in *death*, more adversity than that person could handle (in one way or another) ?

 

I think it would be more interesting if you had to give up something. . . .

I.e. You can get High intelligence . . but lose breast/penis size
You get immunity to Cancer. . . but you might be legally blind


Rocket River

 

Something that results in death means that it was just your time to go... I'm not one of the cryogenically freeze my arse type of people. Even a person's fight for life yet ultimate death can change the lives of others around them for the better.

Let me put it bluntly (Ron Ron would be proud) I don't believe in genetically altering a person.

 

None.

I'll take what nature gives me.

 

I'd want her to look just like droxford.