It’s saying “Remember all those beautiful moments of joy and love you shared with people of your gender? It grosses me out, so I’d rather they never, ever happened again for anyone. For their own good, you understand.”
I was looking at this more from one individual and their child, but I can see where you’re coming from more clearly looking at it from the view of everyone getting on the bandwagon and this procedure becoming standard.
Or it’s saying (extreme examples ahead) “I’m scared you’ll be the next Matthew Shepard.” Or, to take the race angle again, “we’re going to pretend to be Italian because I’m scared you could be the next Emmit Till” or James Byrd for a more recent crime.
A bit off topic, but I’ve heard several anti-gay activists try to use this as an excuse why homosexuality can’t be genetic and it always boggles my mind. In addition to the many other things wrong with it, are they truly so clueless that they don’t realize homosexual men and homosexual women have been producing children since the dawn of humans and that we are all descendants of probably many ancestors who were predominantly homosexual in their orientation and if they lived today would no doubt identify as gay? Hell, the children borne to right wing Fundies caught in gay scandals could alone populate a good sized private academy, and the genes of Oscar Wilde/Eleanor Roosevelt/Edward II/Vita Sackville-West/etc. all seem to be doing quite well.
I love the notion though of Fundies who willingly were implanted with snowflake babies having to decide whether to leave the gay fetus on the counter overnight or have it implanted.
To be perfectly fair, you wouldn’t miss what you never had
I don’t have a billion dollars, nor have I ever won the lottery. Yet I’m not broken up about it everyday for not having such luxuries. However, if I had a billion dollars or if I lost a winning lottery ticket, I would be completely crushed.
To say that someone will miss what they never had, I think, is a very speculative and bad point. You can’t miss it, you can only think how you would feel had you been in that situation. From your point of view now, since you already know how your life is turning out, you are essentially not asking us to miss who you never were, but imagine yourself as someone else instead. That, to me, is where the argument goes south
Before a child is born, they are pretty much all the same. They’re about the same size, look the same, and act the same. You can’t form a specific bond to that thing as well as a defined baby a month old or a year old. Maybe people who are very sentimental can, but I do not think the majority of people will be any worse off than slightly forlorn. Changing a baby’s sexual orientation would fall under that. You can imagine all you want about being gay or straight, but your empathy hinges only on the strength of your imagination. Its not real
It’s not just the absence of the unknown. It reduces the sum total possible of loving relationships in the world. Why do that for the sake of bigots?
Theres no possible way of knowing if procreation will be important to him or not, so the most logical solution is to fix it so its easiest for him, and let him decide.
The kid doesn’t have a personality yet though, just a potential for one. So yes… I am indeed willing to mess with his potential. Nature sucks.
You can redesign them to reduce it though. Nobody thinks much of glasses, yet I still remember the trauma of getting them when i was 7. Being able to see was great, but the ridicule from the little monsters I went to school with… No, I’d fix it, and my kid wouldn’t have that going on, at least. They of course may find something else, but you can’t make things perfect. You can just give them the best hand you can and hope for the best.
Some deaf people want to select for deafness. Would you let them? I certainly would not.
Of course one can have a rewarding life gay. I’ve never tried to say otherwise. But you can have a rewarding life straight as well, and have deeply fulfilling relationships with straight people. I know my life is richer because of my circle of silly redneck friends and the refreshing way they look at things(They think I’m extremely liberal. 
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If my child wants to live an unconventional life, then thats great(well… depends on how unconventional. 
), however, I’m not going to force that on him if I can help it at all. This is like the old arguement about beauty… If everyone were beautiful, it wouldn’t mean anything. That may be true, but who’s going to tell their kid that they need to take one for the team? I’m not that altruistic.