Faith in humanity partially restored...

First of all, I fucking hate William Saletan! He is just fucking terrible...so pretentious and so 'all-knowing'....ugh. He makes me want to hit somebody in the face, preferably him. To those that don't know, he writes these "Human Nature" articles for www.slate.com and he is basically a self-styled bioethicist or sexual ethicist. Good Lord. As I've said before, "get a real job b/c nobody is interested in your half-baked opinions."

Here is a prime example of why I hate this fucker. I actually didn't have the stomach to read the whole thing so I jumped down to the comments where I was expecting to be even more pissed off from reading the usual "these people weren't intended to have kids anyway, they should stop playing god" type of bullshit. Well, much to my happy surprise the first comment said this (from "AJ"):

This is preposterous. People only "get" to the point of buying eggs when they've reached the very end of a long, painful and emotionally enervating process of infertility treatments. No woman or couple would opt for someone else's eggs to create a child, if they could use their own. When people select for certain characteristics in the eggs that they procure, they are attempting, as best as they can, to select for traits that are similar to what they would have expected their own genetic child to have had. It is possible that there may be inflated egos that inform that selection, yes, but the 40 year old chemist who has done three rounds of IUI, three rounds of IVF, suffered a couple of miscarriages, and is a hundred thousand dollars poorer for all her efforts, should not be faulted for seeking the gametes of a woman who is similarly brainy, blonde/brunette/redheaded, tall/slim/athletic/curvy, so that she can "get" a child as similar to her as possible.
Noone would choose someone else's eggs as a first option in trying to build their family. This articles, and articles like it, have little basis in reality.

Thank you AJ! I couldn't have said it better myself.

In fact, most of the comments are pretty decent and put Lord William (I'm stealing Digby's very fitting name for him) in his place, that is, he has no goddamn idea about what he is talking about.

Perhaps there is some collective education going on? Maybe people aren't all that bad...other than good-old Will.