Those who have or want to have children: would you want to genetically modify them?

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60. Oh FFS!

The question was about personal reasons, FFS. You are of course free to have your own view about the happiness life confers.

DU in general discusses a lot of topics about how this is not a good world. For example, did you feel that Freddie Gray had a wonderful, happy life? It was so peaceful for him, particularly there right at the end, FFS. We have institutions, state actors, that gang up on individuals, such as the Kansas mother who just recently lost her child because her kid spoke out in class after a teacher misled the class. FFS.

How do you suppose living in poverty makes so many feel? FFS. There's no problem with poverty in the world. FFS. There's no problem with the Prison industrial complex. FFS. There's no problem with rich people like Koch's having undue influence, or court decisions like Citizens United creating inequity. FFS. The minimum wage is nowhere near a living wage. FFS.

As a potential parent, I feel it is my responsibility to evaluate these conditions before having a child. I would not bring my child to this world, it is my responsibility to protect them from it. It is not a good or a great place for the masses. FFS.

That life has been good for you, full of peace and love and happiness and rainbows and unicorns, seems to me a rather narrow view applicable to just a few. Perhaps you should take off those blinders and look around at the mass suffering around the world and even in the U.S. Perhaps you should take a realists view of the world, instead of a fantastic one. FFS.

I, personally, would much preferred to have lived in the Hunter Gatherer era. Back then you knew the enemies. The modern world we've created is full of deception and deceit, a plutocracy combined with corporatism and fascism, and may only be good for something like 1% of folks.

That's why we have folks rioting in Baltimore. FFS.