Well I was thinking more about just preventing those with inheritable diseases from having children, rather than using genetics to select for positive traits in your children. But even so, I think Gattaca does more as an argument for eugenics than against it. The parents in that film are initially against eugenics because of some hippie belief that it's better to conceive naturally, and it's only when their child is given a life expectancy of 30 years that they realise it was wrong for them to play dice with someone's health and future just because of their own vague principles.
That might happen initially where only rich people are able to afford it, but then that's always the case with everything. Eventually it'd become affordable to middle-class people, and then to everyone.
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Well I was thinking more about just preventing those with inheritable diseases from having children, rather than using genetics to select for positive traits in your children. But even so, I think Gattaca does more as an argument for eugenics than against it. The parents in that film are initially against eugenics because of some hippie belief that it's better to conceive naturally, and it's only when their child is given a life expectancy of 30 years that they realise it was wrong for them to play dice with someone's health and future just because of their own vague principles.
That might happen initially where only rich people are able to afford it, but then that's always the case with everything. Eventually it'd become affordable to middle-class people, and then to everyone.