[notch898c]

Of course what follows then is the implication the individual is not misguided in selecting for desirable traits.

You're basically arguing perhaps for something like decentralized eugenics rather than authoritarian eugenics.

[biohax2015]

Have groups of individuals been any less misguided?

Eugenics is one of those ideas that might sound good in theory, but a world in which the government has absolute control over one of your most basic human instincts is a horrible world.