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While Sandel expressed moral qualms with genetic enhancement, Pinker focused on the scientific improbability of the problem...
...Anybody who has been turned down for a date has been a victim of the human drive to control the genetic composition of one’s children,” Pinker said...
...When it comes to designer babies, I am skeptical that we will see it in our lifetime,” Pinker said. “There is an enormous role of chance in human development...
...Pinker also said that most genes have multiple effects, which makes it very difficult for humans to predict exact effects of tampering with a baby’s genes...
...decision you make about its options is bound to be the wrong one because you have so little information now about how it is going to turn out,” Pinker said...