Seeing Two Sides of A Coin, or Failing To

IT IS BECOMING POSSIBLE to engineer babies. So advanced is our modern science that we can carefully examine the genetic make up of a tiny fetus, and change it. Amazing. It is becoming possible to determine, choose, and change hair color, eye color, and I.Q. for people still in the womb. Also possible to find and eliminate genes destined to cause horrible diseases like Parkinson's, cancer, muscular dystrophy, before they ever have a chance to manifest i a person's post natal life.. Two thirds of we the American people are against all this, all of it. Two thirds of us are against having the power to choose hair and eye color, and against he power to find and eliminate disease causing genes. Against all of it. The same two thirds who don't want gene manipulation for cosmetic purposes also don't want it for disease prevention! It makes one wonder whether the people who answered the question fully understood the question. Or whether they were, for the most part, basing their opinions on broad based, moral and religious grounds. Either circumstance is sufficient to produce an intellectual disaster, such as this survey seems to be. Who in their right mind would possibly object to eliminating all genetic based disease? OK, sure, fine. let's not even get started with this business of giving wealthy young snobbish racist American parents the power to choose their oncoming kid's I.Q or looks. That indeed would be a rocky road. But refusing to get involved in eliminating Parkinson's or cancer from someone's future? Is there anyone who can see the difference, who is in favor of the good opportunity and against the bad one? Surely there is, there must be, and it is to be hoped we start hearing more from these enlightened, reasonable souls.