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What are your thoughts on one of science's latest breakthroughs that expectant parents can now pick which sex they want their child to be?
Clearly some people, a lot in fact, seem to have forgotten the John/Joan case, granted that happened after the child was born, but whose to say that the result would not be the same of the kid finds out that you screwed up who he was originally supposed to be and in the end kills himself? I could see a lot of that happening if these kids were to find out mommy and daddy decided not to let nature take its course, but they HAD to have a boy or a girl, they couldn't just take what they got and see how it turned out.
Now there are some people who compare the parents' right to do WHATEVER they want to their kid because it's THEIR kid, to owning a car and getting to pick what color it is, as if the child is nothing more than a piece of property, that is not alive, not an individual, doesn't have a soul or a personality or anything that qualifies it as a human being. Well I say those kinds of people can get back to us when their cars go off to college, get married and start a family of their own.
I mean really, if your kid found out and asked you why you didn't want what they were supposed to be, how could you answer them and not have it come out as something like 'well I just couldn't love a son as much as a daughter' or 'I just did it to see what it would be like' (there have really been people who give this answer as to why they would do it). Thinking about it from the kids' pov, your parents COULDN'T have you turn out as nature intended, they had to make sure you were born a certain way if they were going to have you at all, doesn't sound like that unconditional love crap you always hear about that parents are supposed to have for their kids regardless of what they are, do, or look like, does it?
Clearly some people, a lot in fact, seem to have forgotten the John/Joan case, granted that happened after the child was born, but whose to say that the result would not be the same of the kid finds out that you screwed up who he was originally supposed to be and in the end kills himself? I could see a lot of that happening if these kids were to find out mommy and daddy decided not to let nature take its course, but they HAD to have a boy or a girl, they couldn't just take what they got and see how it turned out.
Now there are some people who compare the parents' right to do WHATEVER they want to their kid because it's THEIR kid, to owning a car and getting to pick what color it is, as if the child is nothing more than a piece of property, that is not alive, not an individual, doesn't have a soul or a personality or anything that qualifies it as a human being. Well I say those kinds of people can get back to us when their cars go off to college, get married and start a family of their own.
I mean really, if your kid found out and asked you why you didn't want what they were supposed to be, how could you answer them and not have it come out as something like 'well I just couldn't love a son as much as a daughter' or 'I just did it to see what it would be like' (there have really been people who give this answer as to why they would do it). Thinking about it from the kids' pov, your parents COULDN'T have you turn out as nature intended, they had to make sure you were born a certain way if they were going to have you at all, doesn't sound like that unconditional love crap you always hear about that parents are supposed to have for their kids regardless of what they are, do, or look like, does it?
The idea is not to increase the quantity of the education but the quality of it. 
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