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Good God, I dont even Want. To. Know.
I don't think it would be fair to give a kid either of those. 
Both at once? Way unfair.
Clear up any diseases, get rid of this pesky male pattern baldness that plagues my family, make 'em smarter, more athletic, taller, and do something about the weak eyes we all seem to have.
But mostly they'll be lucky to look like their mother rather than me. 
So all I dream about is having the ability to genetically alter them to speak a different language than me so ai don't have to listen to them.
I know language isn't genetic but I can dream, right?
it would make her not repudiate me and everything I ever tried to teach her.
Don't think genetics has gotten to that.
I do not want to hear about Mother's Day.
You still haven't responded to the Vitamin C-producing missing gene and improving your kid by giving them that gene through genetic engineering, though less sophisticated manipulations have used three parents to make a kid, and the change is reportedly persistent through descendants.
What does religion have to do with any of this? I have little patience for that book of deception, it is the work of Satan plain and simple, and it has fooled many otherwise good people. Here's what they want, using their intelligence to produce intentional misery (Seldom do they explicitly admit they intend to create more misery and suffering.) instead of using their brains to produce something better. BTW, that guy is a college graduate, though not Ivy League.
People don't generally riot in the streets because they're happy, so your point about my personal misery is a continuation of your personalization of larger issues. I was merely responsible, and chose not to get caught up in procreative sex without strong precautions. It was an act of asserting the mind over the desires of the body, exactly what all compulsory schools teach, though I extended it to lifelong. I would never ask a loved one of mine to go through the crap I've gone through, but people do that everyday, I'm convinced many do it simply because they get caught up in the heat of a moment or two, and 9 months later, there is the evidence of what occurred 9 months prior. They really didn't think about whether they would want their loved one, their child, to go through the hell they've been through.
The bible sets everyone else up as less than, there's only one son of god. Schools are not that much different, mostly punishment based crap, you're less than, and sometimes their deceptions are quite sophisticated. An example is todays abstinence based sex education, where they don't even teach about the different sexual orientations, only hetero"normative" views. This is not fact or science based instruction, it is biblical and deceptive. Sexual orientation, by itself, has nothing to do with sex, and teaching kids about them is not in conflict with abstinence. It would teach the kids what kind of relationships to look for later in their lives however, and the bible thumpers' reps can't have that, according to the link and twitter posts, the local school board, lifelong misery and its maximization is their goal (also see link above). What failing to teach kids about sexual orientations is that it sets some of them, the more minority orientations, up for more misery later in their lives. This is deliberate and intentional, part of their heteronormative tyranny of the majority while our schools have the temerity to teach with a straight face, "pursuit of happiness" and the fabulous "equality of opportunity" presented to all, if you merely get more education, and work work work to keep these guys happy.
What a riot, though not one like they had in Baltimore.
And by the way, I wasn't talking about -100th century primarily. The hunter-gather era started somewhere more like 80,000 BC or thereabouts, though there are alternative histories suggesting prior "advanced" civilizations in between iceages.
I think it would have been just peachy to have lived 80,000 years ago, before we messed everything up.
Longer , healthier life span. Eliminate genetic timebombs. Enhanced physical and mental ability. So, pretty much juat like their dear old dad.
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