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Rolling the Genetic Dice

DiceHumans currently living should be respected and supported above all potential new life. This should be our highest moral principle. But each human couple has the potential for a million different children, due to the random selection of genes in each fertilized egg. People usually just roll the genetic dice and have the two or three children they do. Once a child is born, they cannot imagine the child being otherwise, and this is how it should be. But parents simply ignore their thousands of other natural potential children, and deny them life.

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