Curiosity is not a theological virtue. - Lois McMaster Bujold

I expect death will still be cheap and always available, doesn’t take high tech.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

The parents of the preceding generation had taken galactic sex-selection technologies much too far in their foolish passion for male heirs, and the very sons they’d so cherished—Miles’s contemporaries—had inherited the resulting mating mess. Go to any formal party in Vorbarr Sultana these days, and you could practically taste the damned testosterone in the air, volatilized by the alcohol no doubt.