RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
August 10, 2017 at 1:36 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2017 at 1:41 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
It's a fallacy because it assumes that past mistakes will be made.
If we took the slipperly slope seriously progress would be impossible. The amount of "Where's it gonna end?" pseudo-arguments people could pull out of their ass to convince people on any issue would be ridiculous. Oh wait that's probably already happening because people are gullible cretins.
The point is that progress is possible and we shouldn't assume slipperly slopes. The slipperly slope only happens if we fail to avoid the bad stuff. And the whole point is to try to fail to avoid the bad stuff and get the good stuff, not give up on it before we've even staretd.
And it's also completely biased because DNA isn't the only area that could be abused or shitty "Where's it gonna end?" sliope fallacious arguments could be said. You could do that on any other serious issue too.
You could do it on abortion for example.
"Sure stem cell research helps save lives and fight cancer but where's it gonna end? Next we'll be slaughtering live toddlers in preschool to harvest their DNA."
or
"Sure fusion energy may one day be a much better source of energy... but where's it going to end? Next we'll be turning to power into a weapon and bombing people even though we already do that already look can you tell yet, Neo, that slippery slope arguments are fucking retarded oh look how I put this inside the quotemarks how amusing oh wait that was intentional."
If we took the slipperly slope seriously progress would be impossible. The amount of "Where's it gonna end?" pseudo-arguments people could pull out of their ass to convince people on any issue would be ridiculous. Oh wait that's probably already happening because people are gullible cretins.
The point is that progress is possible and we shouldn't assume slipperly slopes. The slipperly slope only happens if we fail to avoid the bad stuff. And the whole point is to try to fail to avoid the bad stuff and get the good stuff, not give up on it before we've even staretd.
And it's also completely biased because DNA isn't the only area that could be abused or shitty "Where's it gonna end?" sliope fallacious arguments could be said. You could do that on any other serious issue too.
You could do it on abortion for example.
"Sure stem cell research helps save lives and fight cancer but where's it gonna end? Next we'll be slaughtering live toddlers in preschool to harvest their DNA."
or
"Sure fusion energy may one day be a much better source of energy... but where's it going to end? Next we'll be turning to power into a weapon and bombing people even though we already do that already look can you tell yet, Neo, that slippery slope arguments are fucking retarded oh look how I put this inside the quotemarks how amusing oh wait that was intentional."
