Ok, so my wife and I were just having a discussion about a hypothetical situation. She told me that science may one day soon identify a gene or set of genes that can lead to violence and murder. A "murderer gene" if you will.
She then told me that it would be great if there was a way to prevent violent people from being conceived. As in, if there was a sure way to know that a combination of parents would create offspring that would become a murderer, they could be notified of this and then decide whether or not to conceive.
Ok, lets forget all the religious and moral implications for a minute and think about how it would affect us as a society. I told her the last thing we want to do is breed violence out of Americans, because we would be left with a nation of pansies that would capitulate to a foreign invasion or domestic tyranny.
So, what say you? Would breeding violence out of America be good, or bad in the grand scheme of things? If you had no one capable of violence, you wouldn't see murders, but you might not have anyone left with the resolve to fight when it's necessary.