Conrad: One must think, though, of all the aspects of human life that people judge others by. The recent media criticisms of society's continuous struggle with body shape serves as an example of eugenics that already exists.  Not everyone can have a size two, 36C body.  Some bodies are just not genetically programmed this way.  What of the future of society in this respect, if genetically it only proliferated this body frame?  Would a size 0, 38D be the ideal shape then?  Genetic engineering in this sense only speeds up the process of eugenics in our society.  We will always strive for something “better”, ends to which people may not even be able to reach despite human powers.

 

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