Should we be designing our children?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2012

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In 2009, a fertility clinic controversially offered parents the ability to customize their children. How will society take the idea of designing children? Do we have a moral obligation to design better people? Join Josh and Chuck for this heavy episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.
0:41.0	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.6	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.5	There's Charles W. Tuck Bryant.
0:45.2	This is Stuff You Should Know, the podcast.
0:48.6	This will be done all in Sing Song.
0:52.3	You don't want to hear me sing songs because I've heard you sing songs.
0:56.7	Your heart will melt.
0:58.8	Glasses will break.
1:00.1	My heart will go on.
1:01.1	Word hit shirt.
1:03.1	And grown men will kiss each other on the mouth.
1:10.7	So inspiring.
1:11.7	That'd be pretty cool if you could do that just by singing.
1:15.0	Yeah.
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