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  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldroger roger
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    19 hours ago

    What family would get to use a robotic womb!? This type of technology would be reserved for the wealthy. The wealthy would likely create a genetically altered human baby to be super smart and resistant to disease.

    How many humans are you comfortable killing to develop this technology? How many more humans get to suffer being created as orphans without a real family.

    What I think is irrelevant. What the market will demand when we can create human life with the flip of a swotch will be another thing. Creating super soldiers, organ donors, human lab experiments, creating a slave caste, etc. will definitely be on the table.

    If you haven’t thought of these implications that is on you boo.


  • I am talking about the implications of creating humans unethically in ways that would upend society as we know it.

    Denying our strong familial bounds due to pregnancy and raising our biological offspring is silly. I am not saying fatherhood isn’t real or that people can’t adopt.


  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldroger roger
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    22 hours ago

    Did I say adoption didn’t happen. No.

    How does cesarian section have anything to do with artificial wombs!? It doesn’t.

    Is a surrogate anything like a test tube baby that no longer requires a human to give up their bodily autonomy to make. No.

    Would be being born from a test tube in our current society be traumatic. Most likely.

    Who will be able to have test tube babies. Not the poor!

    What if someone decides to make a clone of themselves to harvest organs. Likely scenario.

    What if someone gets your genetic material and makes a baby without your permission. Ethical issues abound.

    How many human lives will be lost trying to perfect this technology. Countless.

    Why doesn’t this idea give you the ick? You are incredibly naive.


  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldroger roger
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    1 day ago

    Your mother gives birth to you. She doesn’t just donate genetic material. She carries you inside her for 9 months before pushing you out and holding you as you take your first breathe. This is the way it has been for millions of years.

    What people are proposing is breaking that human cycle. Eliminating the investment of time body and soul into the next generation. Pretending this wouldn’t have significant impacts on our society is farcical. Population could literally be controlled by whoever has the money.

    We would also likely end up in a Gattaca situation because who would want to spend the money on a defective baby. Crispr babies raised by the government or corporations doesn’t sound like a future I would look forward to.