Sitting in Biology class the morning after I finished reading Ishmael and Mother Culture is buzzing loudly. Discussing genetically modified food, professor poses the opening for ethical questions. A student immediately says "But there are undeniable positives- we are feeding so many, in this population we can't afford not to genetically modify our food."
But we aren't feeding everyone.
Growth in food, growth in population. Of course there is a direct correlation.
But now it is monopolized.
"Soon you voting citizens will have to decide whether we can modify genes to balance out a gender ratio; to balance out the number of daughters and sons."
And my blood boils.
The frontier of gender is already so obstructed. It is not a choice for society to make. There are people who are neither daughters nor sons. What about those individuals who are daughters and sons? To ask a population to dictate how many cookie cutter boys and girls they want born that year is not only an enormous, unnecessary undertaking, but ethically cruel.
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