In all living things there is a common instinct; survival. Animals live only to breed and pour their ‘essence’ into the gene pool to hope to improve the next generations. Animals leave behind their deformed or ‘albino’. Humans have risen above that, becoming by far the most dominant of creatures. The quality that is so highly valued in humans- humanity- spares unique individuals, those of different mind and body, the ‘albinos’, because we do not need to become anything greater in order to remain dominant. The very fact that we can question this system of living that forces us to desire sex so we can re-produce, hate that which we do not understand and feel the constant need to fit in with society for the good of the species makes us different from the rest of nature- even goes against it. Humans also have anti-nature traits such as guilt.
P.S I believe that choosing an embryo and genetic engineering at that level is not human- because by having this happen at an embryo level, we remove guilt which is one of the human traits that makes us different from the rest of nature.
P.P.S This is an excerpt from an essay I wrote on H.G Wells’ The Time Machine. I recommend you to read it and ask yourself: 100 years after The Time Machine was written, how much closer is society to the future that H. G. Wells predicted?