RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
August 11, 2017 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2017 at 11:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's a compulsion with you.
Thousands of years of secular ethics, ethics which found their way into your own magic book...but you just can't see how anyone who doesn't believe in fairies might justify some ethical position any way other than "might makes right".
Really?
In any case, it's true that people aren't all that good at family planning (gee, I wonder why that might be, lol) - but also that we do have a poor track record with central control. If you wanted to offer a more accurate criticism, rather than the usual shitpost, it would probably meander along the lines of the ethical thinking that leads one to such a conclusion is valid and sound, but that we have little practical ability to do so and a track record of worst case scenario failures. It's not thew thought you're really railing against, but it's implementation. If we were better people, it would be a fantastic idea...but we're not..so, for now, it isn't.
There's nothing about an ethics that sharply criticises our reproductive choices or even our ability to competentlky make them that leads, inexorably, to collectivist fascism. There have been fascists who made similar observations, though. / shrugs
Personally, I think the world needs more of us. Just choke the ever loving shit out of this rock and the next one, and the next one, and the next one -ad infinitum. Genetic engineering can certainly help us do that, if we don't use it to shit all over ourselves first. Ultimately, GE is just a shortcut to what we've been doing this whole time selecting our partners.
Thousands of years of secular ethics, ethics which found their way into your own magic book...but you just can't see how anyone who doesn't believe in fairies might justify some ethical position any way other than "might makes right".
Really?
In any case, it's true that people aren't all that good at family planning (gee, I wonder why that might be, lol) - but also that we do have a poor track record with central control. If you wanted to offer a more accurate criticism, rather than the usual shitpost, it would probably meander along the lines of the ethical thinking that leads one to such a conclusion is valid and sound, but that we have little practical ability to do so and a track record of worst case scenario failures. It's not thew thought you're really railing against, but it's implementation. If we were better people, it would be a fantastic idea...but we're not..so, for now, it isn't.
There's nothing about an ethics that sharply criticises our reproductive choices or even our ability to competentlky make them that leads, inexorably, to collectivist fascism. There have been fascists who made similar observations, though. / shrugs
Personally, I think the world needs more of us. Just choke the ever loving shit out of this rock and the next one, and the next one, and the next one -ad infinitum. Genetic engineering can certainly help us do that, if we don't use it to shit all over ourselves first. Ultimately, GE is just a shortcut to what we've been doing this whole time selecting our partners.
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