dave_j

As a society we have become used to the inequality of opportunity of individuals based on their wealth.
We see the use that wealth has introduced into education in the realm of private tuition, bribes paid for entry into the best universities and the indebtedness that the poor accumulate into old age simply to enable degree level achievement.
There will always be those in the private sector who seek to maximise income by providing services to the the rich that aren't available to the rest of us and today I read... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-48271031
Playing devil's advocate I'd argue that there's little wrong in conserving stem cells of offspring.. just in case.. and after all it's their cash so what's wrong?
I'd argue it's simply another nail in the coffin of society.
People will put up with an awful lot providing they think they are being treated fairly. I'd argue that there's a tipping point, beyond which this thin veneer of calm, that we call civilisation, breaks down and it's acts like this, where the moneyed classes seek advantage, that chip away the foundations of this calm, and this is just another example of that happening.
'Let them eat cake' was spoken by another who didn't understand the inevitability of inequality.

Shard

Too much arguing, not enough cake.