Prion diseases are an usual sort, aren't they, [@Penny]?

I must agree there is no way around the matter, that they are an inevitability provided humanity keeps progressing, even if only at this rate. I also submit that the only way to mitigate these threats - of which I do consider to be tremendous - is to provide a set of doctrine which cannot be deviated from. While this is unlikely to happen, that some will still exploit these boons even if such a ruling came to pass, it is critical to ensuring that people are afforded as much of a fair start as they can be, prior to even their own birth. It concerns me even more when I know beyond a shadow of a doubt I would invest all of my resources into it were it a possibility, if only to better assure my offspring a future. I say this because I know too that my power to do so is not nearly as great as many others.

I do not worry about say, the color of their hair or eyes, but who would not want their child to be physically attractive or outright beautiful? Who would not them to have an intellect that is just five percent higher? Or the potential to have a higher threshold of maximum muscle mass? Or a high metabolism? On and on and on.

So great are these advantages that they are not an option. Worse yet, I would never dare trust the average person with them. I know that if I would have the temptation to exploit them that many would. No less, I would equally be doing a disservice by denying these opportunities to them because of my own bias; I would much rather they decide their own person and who they are above all else. In such a case I cannot, in good conscious, do this.