I'm with you on everything but one... genetic engineering. I'm even with you that all patents on genetic material should be revoked. But I think you're wrong when you say that genetic engineering is creating life forms without love, or that it amounts to rape and the creation of orcs. Granted, genetic engineers are human too, and many of them are indeed motivated by profit and greed. However, there are almost surely as many motivated by nobler goals, doing their work with love and compassion, such as those striving to use genetic engineering to cure disease. Ultimately, the underlying attitudes and the way that genetic engineering is approached... the researcher's relationship with their work, and their work's relationship with the planet, if you will... is what will determine the outcome, positive or negative.

Borrowing from the personal mythology of various individuals we know, my thoughts are drawn immediately to two individuals (whom I will not name here, but I believe you know them well enough to know who I am speaking of) who believe that, in past lives, they were the products of genetic engineering in order to create some sort of super-soldier. One had his genetic material taken from different species to make him, and the other was simply tailor-made. Neither was raised in what one could call a loving environment. But today, both are excellent individuals we count as friends. Even in those lives, I don't think you could fairly call either of them orcs. Genetic engineering may determine form, but it doesn't determine spirit. And I think it is a twisted spirit, far more than twisted bodies, which makes something an orc. Sadly, we've known more than our share of those as well.

"They were elves, once..."