A parent may impose their rules on a child, and call it for their own good, and yet it is still imposing one's will upon another.

If someone were to select an avian, would they have functional flight-capable wings I wonder? Or would the weight of a humanoid size be simply too great to get off the ground?

[Perhaps oddly, the professor doesn't sound disturbed by any of this. Maybe he's just weighing it as a thought experiment.]