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If it’s legal to drink alcohol and poison yourself it’s no different than pouring arsenic in the water supply and poisoning everyone right?

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How is improving a handful of people tantamount to poisoning everyone?

The point is that those "improvements' will contaminate everyone in the long run.

Poor comparison. Let's not forget that it's legal for people with hereditary diseases to procreate, would you compare that with "poisoning the water supply"?

Furthermore, here are some legal ways to crudely "engineer" the DNA of your future offspring:

- smoking

- drinking

- legal prescription drugs

- exposing yourself to ionizing radiation

That counts for both males and females, of course with pregnant females the effects are vastly amplified.

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