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The concern over a re-emergence of eugenics is well founded but misplaced. 
While professional ethicists watch out the front door for tell tale signs of a 
resurrection of the Nazi nightmare, eugenics doctrine has quietly slipped in 
the back door. The new eugenics is commercial not social. In place of the 
shrill eugenic cries for racial purity, the new commercial eugenics talks in 
pragmatic terms of medical benefits and improvement in the quality of life. 
The old eugenics was steeped in political ideology and motivated by fear and 
hate. The new eugenics is grounded in medical advance and the spectre of 
extending the human life span. 
Genetic engineering, then, is coming to us not as a threat, but as a promise; 
not as a punishment but as a gift. And here is where the true danger lies. If 
the Brave New World comes, it will not be forced on us by an evil cabal of 
self-serving scientists and Machiavellian politicans. On the contrary, what 
makes opposition to the Brave New World so difficult is the seductive path 
that leads to it. Every new advance in human genetic engineering is likely 
to be hearalded as a great stride forward, a boon for humankind. Everyone 
of the breakthroughs in genetic engineering will be of benefit to someone, 
under some circumstance, somewhere in society. And step by step, advance 
by advance, we human beings might well choose to trade away the 
spontaneity of natural life for the predictability of technological design until 
the human species as we know it is transformed into a product of our own 
creation; a product that bears only a faint resemblance to the orginal. 
How important is it that we eliminate all the imperfections, all the defects? 
What price are we willing to pay to extend our lives, to insure our own 
health, to do away with all of the inconveniences, the irritations, the 
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