Always reember: A debate is a known partisan game. You are not expected to believe what you say, just to make it convincing. So don’t worry about why people shoulld NOT make designer babies. That’s a problem for your opponent.
Ther eare some easy things: Like to prevent the child from having genetic diseases and vulnerabilities. Who wants a baby with congenital 50% chance of becoming senile by age 50 or better than 50 pereent of getting breast or colon cancer? Wouldn’t every person like to have an IQ over 160 and be strong enough to win in the Olympics? And doesn’t every man want to be as handsome as Robert Redroed and every woman as Bridget Bardot or Luren Becall? What will you ansewr if a kid grows up with all sorts of things that aren’s so great and everybody around him is “super” and you are his (her, other’s ) parent and he asks you: “Why did you subject me to this when you could have made it so much better? Why did you want to make my life so bad?” What are you going to say?”Because I was virtuous” or: “For your own good”….
Finally, always reember if there is opportunity for rebuttal: The best way to beat an opponent, if possible, is with their own words. If you can get a person to argue with themself it does not matter what they think of your arguments, does it? Let them self-destruct. That, of course, is not always possible but it is the ideal: “The great general wins without fighting.” (Sun Tzu)
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