... to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness- (Huxley, Brave New World, 1969, pg 228). Without knowing the emotions of joy and happiness, of poetry and love, the citizens in Huxley's world were deprived, sacrificing all that beauty for a genetically engineered world. A world, they thought, that was perfect, man-made to perfection and purposefulness. The worry in ... just two species? Once the Pandora's Box of manipulating genes, for mortality, then for more, is opened, there is no limit to the possibilities, nightmarish or constructive. "Consider dogs. DNA tests ...

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