Ethics of Designer Deaf Babies

Jay Krieger presents a discussion on moral and social ethics on producing Deaf babies. Jay hopes to demonstrate that its NOT morally unethical as long as they are "designed" before conception. The issue we are seeing may be within the social ethics.

Note: Jay does not discuss selection of embryos, but looks at the decisions made prior to conception.

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[Salticid68]

(Pt 2) hearing child of the same age, even though that test was designed for hearing ppl, because it includes English vocabularies and reading skills and not including ASL skill (I believe our strong spatial skill compensate that); workers perform poor in noisy environment. They need aid such as soundproof wall and sound barrier wall that cost a lot of moola; Deaf Chinese children write better and shorter cut; some more. That's why they're not everything or normal. We're just different.

[Salticid68]

Interesting. But I don't view hearing people as "everything" or "normal". I don't think that "take away from their hearing". I would say like "add to their hearing". Why...I noticed that deaf children don't need to learn ASL. They just observed and sign right the first time they sign. For hearing children, you have to teach them repeatly until they sign right; 90% of deaf ppl can dream in color and 50% of hearing ppl dream in b&w; avg deaf child of deaf parents score higher on IQ than avg (Pt 1)