Human Enchanment Fallout?

[frigidmagi]

Let's play a game of pretend. Let's say there is a proceedure that when proformed on a fetus in the womb makes a smarter and overall better child. Let's also say that those who do not go through this proceedure cannot compete at all against those who have. It's also very expensive.

At what point does this become a right worth fighting and killing over?

[Robert Walper]

I'd personally say it should be a mandatory operation done to fetuses funded by the government. Parents trying to intervene or stop the procedure could be charged with abuse towards a potential human being.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't be that simple. *grumbles*

[frigidmagi]

I'd personally say it should be a mandatory operation done to fetuses funded by the government. Parents trying to intervene or stop the procedure could be charged with abuse towards a potential human being.

Yes, but you know it won't start out that way. I'm asking at what point will people begin to see this has a right worth committing voilence to obtain.

[Ace Pace]

The moment they realise their kids are being cut out from the job force because of it.

[Cynical Cat]

Ace has hit the nail on the head. Once they realize that their kids future depends upon getting this procedure, they will fight to get it.

[Comrade Tortoise]

Either that, or the proceedure would be banned

[Stofsk]

At what point does this become a right worth fighting and killing over?

I don't think it can be considered a right to fight and kill over.

Does a black man/asian/whatever have the right to fight and kill over being discriminated against in a job market? It's still murder.

As for should it be regulated against: well should it? After all, in today's job market those with a piece of paper that says when they graduated and from which university matters more to a potential employer than those applicants who don't have that piece of paper. Is that bad? The applicant who went to university must have paid an awful lot of money to do so.

[Comrade Tortoise]

I figure if a person hs the proceeure, they are entitled to use it. it is the same as having a college education. it entitles certain benefits and makes one more qualified. It is the same as going to the gym to make oneself stronger, or getting special training to better perform at one's job.

[Mayabird]

Either that, or the proceedure would be banned

But then of course the richest people would still secretly be getting the procedure done on their kids because the rules don't apply to people with lots of money. And afterwards, what are people going to do, repossess the kids?

Side questions: Is this some sort of "Flowers for Algernon" type surgery or genetic enhancements that can be passed on? And what about if the surgery is done on kids that are going to be born with Downs Syndrome or the like?