Louise

Yes, it would be easy to say, physically weak but hyperintelligent people can indeed be successful in life and bring benefits to humankind. But it's not always that way. Lots of children are born physically weak and without sufficient intelligence - by the "normal" human standards. They will never make own reasonable decisions - if they were to make their own decisions, they might harm themselfes or others.

AND even those people who have physical deficies in fact do reproduce - who could forbid them to? Yes, they could adopt people or implant eggs or use other individuals genes for own offspring - because of modern and very expensive medicinetechnology, but the wish for own children often outweights the wisdom of such a decision.

And if everyone should be real free to make his/her own decisions wouldn't it be consequent to say that there should be no laws? I really don't think most people are "human" enough to do so.

I really believe that the main type of how we raise our children has develloped on the basis how it works and how not. Of course this does not mean we should accept everything as given without thinking for better ways. If we treated everybody equal - we'd be very unfair! Having all the same expectations to different people would not make them equal at all!

Sibylle