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Mess with Mother Nature and she might bite you in the ass, almost literally.
According to a column in today’s L.A. Daily News http://www.dailynews.com/ci_10302330 by sports columnist Steve Dilbeck, more women are requesting that super jockness be one of the traits that sperm doners are endowed with.Jockeying for athletic position is ranking right up there with smarts and good looks, so scientists are busy are strapping the jock gene on all the other desirable genes.
Duh. Of course, we all want children that have some outstanding talent, are intelligent and stunners, who will do better than we did.
Who amongst us ever wished for a kid who dumb as a rock, looks like a young Frankenstein or is a klutz?
Wanting a kid who’s smart, I understand, but not one who’s smarter than I, although they all -- even the densest one’s -- think they’re smarter than we are.
And of course, we want out children to be attractive and not have to suffer the slings and arrows from other kids who aren’t much prettier, who hurl epitets like Dumbo, four eyes, or fatty, fatty two-by-four, couldn’t get through the bathroom door, so he did it on the floor.
Or worse in today’s age, having a sick-o mother malign your kid on line.
So what are these wanna-have-little Kobe Bryants, Mark Spitzes, Manny Remerezes or Doug Fluties really all about? Do they think their little Sandy Koufax will really be a major league ballplayer.
They have about as much chance of that happening as the kid who’s born with unplayed with talent.
I’m not a fan of genetic tinkering and fooling Mom Nature. A big part of me hopes that people who mess with her, and want their kids to have traits they don’t have, get just the opposite of what they're trying to achieve, especially when it’s something as vapid as athletic prowess.To all those athletically challenged who want a little Mays, Shaq, Ali or Phelps to live vicariously through, I kinda hope they get a brilliant nerdy Stephen Hawking.
If scientists want to tinker with the gene pool, it would be a boon to humankind if we could be injected with a shark gene and automatically regrow lost teeth.
Of course, the dentists won’t like that, but ya can’t please everybody.
