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Will Genetic Engineering Reduce Racial Diversity?

Lets say over a decade technology have advance to the point where parents can choose their baby's physical traits , Will genetically engineering babies (designer babies) reduce or increase racial diversity in society? 

Increase Diversity

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Reduce Diversity

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Halfies look the best, so I'd say artificially increase it.

Side: Increase Diversity
2 points

By the time humans can achieve this level of engineering, we would have all been mixed together. There would be no race to diversify.

Side: Increase Diversity
2 points

Of course! Haven't you even seen any aliens? They all look alike.

Side: Reduce Diversity
2 points

No. The initial applications will be to reduce disease and deformity. Later applications will include reducing undesirable physical attributes by repairing genetic mutations that lead to short stature, obesity and asymmetric features. Race will be blended by much more by natural pairing than artificial manipulation.

Side: Reduce Diversity
2 points

Well, maybe this ongoing process will eventually be the ultimate, in the much talked and sung about 'great big melting pot''. Left to nature, multiculturalism simply doesn't work. So far racial diversity has caused serious community damage including violent and deadly civil disorder, so we must live in hope that scientists can eliminate the racial differences and prejudices so future generations can live a more harmonious life. To date the only people who can successfuly mix different colours together are painters.

Side: Reduce Diversity
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I agree with you but this could create a cast system in society like in india, where fair skinned people would have a higher status than the average dark skinned person , which will lead to inequility.

But then again since the white population is going into a decline I see designer babies as a necessity for the survival of the caucasian race.

Side: Reduce Diversity
Kalamazoo(333) Clarified
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A race in numerical decline doesn't at all mean that it is in decline in any other way. Indeed, in many ways the self discipline and birth control procedures required to restrict one's family to a number which can be afforded is a graphic illustration of how reason and intelligence can overcome the animalism type urges to propagate irresponsibly. As a result of the darker skinned lower orders breeding like rabbits there are some two thousand children dying a lingering and painful ''every day'' in Africa. We in the west are inundated with advertisements depicting hard luck stories and images of sad eyed children dying of starvation all designed to pluck our heart strings so we part with our hard earned dosh. This is nature's ''natural selection'' process in action. As a result of the biased propaganda spewed out by the politically correct brigade it is difficult to make certain points without being accused of being racist, but nevertheless it must be recognised that almost all of the world's inventions and discoveries, including the computer you're using and the language in which you're communicating are white men's creations. The everyday items which we take for granted such as electricity, the light bulb, the internal combustion engine, aircraft, automobiles, the telephone, the radio, television, penicillin and pretty much all the life saving and pain relieving drugs are attributable to white inventors and geniuses. If genetic engineering can infuse a higher level of intelligence into the darker skinned sub-orders then this intellectual imbalance may be redressed. Nature, through it's ''natural selection'' process has meant that the strong/intelligent of all animal species survive but the weak and incapable perish and become extinct. The manufacturing and marketing techniques used by those countries whose population have darker skins have all been adopted/pinched from the white western innovators and industrial pioneers such as Henry Ford.

Side: Increase Diversity