If parents were to choose exactly how they want their child to look like, their intellectual capabilities and even their personality type, wouldn't everyone choose to have a perfect child with a high IQ, and many other desirable qualities?

In this way, every child will be perfect, getting perfect scores in all their examinations and being drop dead gorgeous. If this is the case, everyone would be the same, and the sense of identity will be lost, and the and this would be unfair to those parents who do not get a chance to make their own designer babies, as the children they have will be just like any other normal child, who has to strive hard to be able to succeed in life, unlike the designer babies, who have already been born with an edge over others.


Where would designer babies get their identity if everyone would to look the same?

Those children will feel inferior to the designer babies, as no matter how hard they try, it will be almost impossible for them to out do the all perfect designer babies. Not only will they feel inferior, they will never be given a chance to perform, or even to showcase their ablilities and have a chance to get the better opportunities in life. Take for example, your company has only one vacancy left for a job. If an all-rounded person and a person with certain flaws were to apply for the post, who would you give the job to? If you were to take the company's benefits in mind, you would definately choose the perfect person, of course.

In conclusion, I think that, of designer babies are ever allowed to be created, the opportunity should be given only to those people whose children are known to be at risk of certain hereditary diseases, and not for aesthetic enhancements.

Signing off,
Jing Qing