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In many ways we are already selecting for those traits and have been for countless generations

What we are not quite confident about is if one gene may have two or more different affects that we have yet to discover.

Artificially changing selective genes without thinking that another gene may be needed to counterbalance one change is the possibility most worrying.

That is a purely scientific scenario and therefore can be understood and accounted for. The ethical question is how we identify and resolve them safely.

It is also mostly moot, as genetic interactions are already a part of everyday conceptions. Many of today's genetic afflictions are due to parents' genes interacting unexpectedly. See Lorenzo's Oil[1], for example.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Odone

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