In this time period, some children aren't who they actually think they are. Parents now treat their own offspring, a human who should be seen as something precious and unique, as just a mere commodity. Genetic engineering allows these parents to do this horrendous task. They can pick out features, and characteristics of their children. Customizing handbags or shoes is the same as customizing your child. You can choose if she/he is going to be blue eyed, blonde and smart.
Now let's take a broader look at this situation. Similar features that are well liked will be seen on more and more children, while the parents who don't follow this trend will drecrease and decrease until the point where everyone is made to be the same.
It's when everyone walks around with the characteristics and features that just look the same that we begin to worry about our world. Who are we indiviually if we look alike? Our personalities and characterisitcs may differ, but when you look in the mirror and instead of seeing someone unique, you see the guy across the street. What then? Is our desire to be "perfect" so blurred that we would be willing to give up our identity for it? There's already a separation in society, where the humans who have been genetically altered separate themselves from us normal humans. The separation will be becoming deeper and deeper if this continues. Race discrimination is a thing of the past, instead discrimination of the "perfects" and "normals" are now at hand.
Is that what society wants? An age where everyone looks similar to each other, where almost none is unique and of they're own. An age where identity is no more.
Are we even considered humans if we are able to choose every aspect? Or are we just perceptions of our fantasies?
