A human growth hormone has been approved to boost the height of kids who are short but not in bad health. According to Reuters:

The FDA said it approved the treatment for the shortest 1.2 percent of children. For 10-year-old boys and girls, that would correspond to a height of less than 4 feet 1 inch. Their expected adult height without treatment would be less than 5 feet 3 inches for men and 4 feet 11 inches for women.

Corante’s Arnold Kling then makes this astute observation:

OK. Now, once those children have been given growth pills, somebody else will be in the bottom 1.2 percent. And once those children have been given growth pills…
Randy Newman once sang “Short people got no reason to live.” Don’t worry, Randy. We are about to be engineered out of the human race.

This is the kind of development in biotech that sets conservatives [e.g. Kass] and libertarians [e.g. Reason’s Ron Bailey] against each other. I’m not sure how I feel about it. Do Cornerites think this is a good thing or a bad thing?