A political and sociophilosophical quandry.

[delirium_3000]

I'm gonna discuss the most clichéd, hotly debated and - oddly enough - still one of the most unstable political minefields of a topic this side of the Middle East, and has held this distinction since the 1960s.

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[elledille]

Just wanted to point out that you're mentioning opposites. Perfect parents, only wanting the best for their children (even if it's misguided by modern parenting ideas), or drug addicts.

Don't forget that most people are idiots. Really, they truly are. Bringing a child into this world is "big", in the sense that they get a pretty little check from the government, and they get to dress up the baby. We're talking about the same people who invented and probably eats "Baconaise". That's the majority out there. Never underestimate them.

Some people might want to pick a baby, handpick the genes, but most of us wouldn't, would we? Like you said, we can trust instincts (to let themselves be known, at least, even if we don't always follow), and what's more primal than procreating?

This would have sounded a hell of a lot more intelligent had it not been written in the middle of the night. Sorry.

[delirium_3000]

An important point, and I was almost keeling over for want of sleep myself when I wrote this.

It's in the back of my head that I'm dealing in the extremes here, but the Trainspotting reference was really just to show an extreme case. And I know that, as you say, most people are idiots.

It seems you understand my point, which was, in essence, to debunk the anti-abortionist "Gattaca baby" rhetoric. And though it seems like you're trying to say three things at once, your points are well made.