[1996]

People don't like that it's permanent, and transmitted.

If you have money, you can make your kids AIDS (and Cholera, and Smallpox) resistant.

They see that as "unfair", and conveniently forget money buy high education and network.

Some other people disagree for religious reason - they say it's "playing god", but I do not understand their arguments. Humanity has done selective breeding for centuries, and nobody ever complained.

It's just doing the same with better methods, as the CCR5 mutation discussed in the article was not created by humans, but naturally selected.

[gmfawcett]

> Humanity has done selective breeding for centuries, and nobody ever complained.

Nobody has ever complained about eugenics? About master races vs. inferior breeds of human, or about hereditary caste systems? I think you need to brush up on your history before making such claims.

[Fezzik]

I imagine OP is talking about how we get to select our partners, not eugenics. And how, generally speaking, the wealthier and better looking a person is the wealthier and better looking their partner and then children will be.

Edit, to add: the same is likely true for realized intelligence as well.

[alisonkisk]

And it's absurd to say that no one ever complained about that or aren't still complaining about that.