Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: August 18, 2026, 10:11 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
#26
RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
(August 5, 2017 at 11:49 am)Khemikal Wrote: Enlightened benevolence doesn't really seem like the sort of thing the upper strata is known for.  

You're not being imaginative (or bloody minded, lol) enough.  I could think of a million things to do with people who don't need as much oxygen and don't suffer fatigue as easily.  People who would have increased muscle mass and the ability to hold their breath.  

Mining would be a waste of their abilities, as would manufacturing.  On the upside, they'd make great search and rescue divers, also, SEALS.  Tetrachromats would make brilliant cops....or MOUT assualt.

Oh. I was assuming they'd all become too intelligent for any of that shit to be necessary or desirable. Utopian ideal and all that.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?

---

There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad? - by Astonished - August 5, 2017 at 3:14 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Editing the "germ line" with CRISPR AKA "eugenics" Duty 9 3005 March 26, 2020 at 3:00 pm
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  Older fathers increase odds of sicker babies brewer 3 1009 November 1, 2018 at 11:14 am
Last Post: Angrboda
  We must de-stigmatize eugenics Alexmahone 62 17565 August 17, 2018 at 5:29 pm
Last Post: Joods
  Damn, I'm really sick: coughing, runny nose, sore throat vorlon13 45 13542 July 15, 2017 at 11:47 am
Last Post: vorlon13
  Bad Dog vorlon13 23 4288 July 25, 2016 at 9:42 pm
Last Post: vorlon13
  What do you think about Eugenics? Twisted 47 15743 June 19, 2015 at 7:13 pm
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  What can other great apes really do? Alex K 20 7770 May 11, 2015 at 3:21 am
Last Post: Alex K
  Bad news for vegetarians Mudhammam 8 3511 July 3, 2014 at 4:49 am
Last Post: ignoramus
  Bad news for Rick Santorum: Homophobia shortens lifespan. TaraJo 34 11661 April 12, 2014 at 4:01 pm
Last Post: John V
  Interesting Concept..... Minimalist 15 9228 March 6, 2014 at 4:02 am
Last Post: max-greece



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)