Beautiful BABES

Last week, Wired Magazine reported about a Los Angeles clinic that allowed parents to choose the eye color and hair color of their future babies.

The response was frantic-- the clinic shut down. Transhumanist John Hughs doesn't know why:

"Hughes: Insofar as the choices are eye color and hair color, that's not going to exacerbate inequalities in society. It's a minor way in which greater wealth allows more reproductive choice, but it shouldn't be a reason to override reproductive freedom.

If PGD had the ability to double the IQs of children — which it doesn't — then that would be the sort of inequality that warranted a social policy against it. I'm worried about that situation, not hair and eye color."

I imagine Mr. Hughs has never seen Jane Elliott's "Eye of the Storm"-- you know, that film about a teacher who tells her third graders that blue-eyed people are superior to brown-eyed people? Thanks to Frontline, you can watch the whole thing (or read about it) here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

The results are fairly jarring.