How can a question that reads so easily be so complex? On one hand, the answer is sharp and simple, and on the other, it's just complicated.
As humans, we want many things. There's a saying that goes, 'no one has it all.' You find a person with just a height you consider very okay, and beautiful skin, but then their dentirion leaves more to be desired, some wealthy persons who look perfect on the outside battle so much internally, with their health. So much that their wealth and affluence can't subdue, on and on. On one hand, you may think that we're just okay how we are rather than striving for a perfection that we may even end up not being content with. On the other hand, you think that it wouldn't hurt to make some modifications that would ensure that a person grows older and is happy of it.
I mean, if I had to go by the second narrative, I would be moved to ask, what truly is perfection? On what basis does it stand? Who determines what the word perfect connotes? Since growing up, I have seen through time how warped the world's view of that word swayed. I have seen how one minute, fairness was the beauty standard and the next day, dark skin wad or how it moved from being skinny to being chubby, it goes on with different features. If that had to be, how can parents be sure that their choice of a fair, plump baby isn't met with aggression by the baby when he/she grows older and the standards have changed and he/she learns of the parents involvements in that?
All that I'm driving at is that I don't know for certain. In like general principles, I don't think this should ever get to be cause it doesn't quite seem right. Meanwhile, if I knew the baby genetic defect or chronic condition that could be changed without affecting the quality of the child's life, then it just seems right cause in rhis case, it's all for a good cause. Any person, even i, would jump at the chance to do something to ensure a healthy, stress-free life for my child. It just seems ideal and right. But if it was merely for reasons as making the child more beautiful/handsome or intelligent, then no. It's like making copies of the same thing. I don't see how having human copies with similar makeups of one another helps up. I can’t see the beauty in that similarity. In fact, it limits human diversity, and it doesn't seem good for the long-term health and needs of the society.
Moral questions as this one leaves little room for a definite answer. They're always like a spectrum that points in different directions, each with a signal to large and loud, you can't miss. I just think that the pursuit of such things as perfection doesn't quite end well. But then, the prospect comes off tempting, I must admit.
I hope that this was interesting to read. Thanks for coming around.