Genetically engineering 'ethical' babies is a moral obligation,

Planet of retards.

If we have the ability to engineer ethical behavior, it's a good thing and should be done.

yes, they won't be like you are, since a lot of people here are A-holes, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to seek the best in people.

I'm just not certain those traits are completely genetic. A good education is just as important and proper upbringing, but we do nothing to really ensure those, do we?

Many of the people who have done the most to advance society have been anti social freaks.
When we breed out the far edges of the bell curve, we prehaps will have nothing but stasis.

Being ethical does not mean a person will be refined to the level you seem to think. Ethics are a specific thing after all.

Also, what great things have been done by unethical people that we've actually needed?

Please site some examples. Several would be good and explain why you think that their anti-social behavior had a significant affect on what they did.

Genetics has nothing to do with ethics.

Why don't they just come out and call it the master race and get it over with?

Disgusting.

This would stop human evolution, spiritual evolution
in it's tracks. Man evolves through the exercise of free-will, from learning from mistakes, from the tension created
between good and evil both internally and externally.
Today's "unethical" scoundrel could be tomorrow's saint,
as they learn, grow. Without the freedom to choose one's course humanity will lose it's spiritual endowment. The
idiot scientist doesn't seem to understand that there is
no ethics without freedom of choice - man becomes an
automaton without freedom of will.

As they do not even have sound a basis to start from:

[link to www.stuff.co.nz]

"It turns out babies don't have a moral compass after all, New Zealand researchers have found.

An Otago University study has quashed the findings of a landmark 2007 Yale study which found that infants could tell the good guys from the bad guys.

The prestigious university's study became an international sensation as it was the first to suggest that babies could assess individuals on their behaviour towards others. The findings have become widely accepted since the study was published, and more than one hundred other research papers have referred to it, which is a signal of its success, Otago University postdoctoral fellow Dr Damian Scarf said."



I see what you did there. :)

Brave New World.

This is what the "illuminutties" cannot grasp.