RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
August 11, 2017 at 4:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2017 at 4:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 11, 2017 at 4:17 pm)Astonished Wrote: Sustainable population growth without runaway overpopulation, as far as what the genetic mods and reproductive regulation are for. Who the fuck says they're all going to be white, or any other ethnicity, maybe they can be made to tolerate low oxygen levels and all have a cyanotic skin tone? Then we can all be Mary Poppins, y'all.Who says? Market reality, political pressure, historical trends, and common sense. If they;re engineering their children for advantage - then they'll engineer their children to whatever fits the privileged class. That's a white male conformist...in case you were unaware. Every little bit counts..in a world of superbabies. It'd be a waste to engineer an uberchild and then leave them black, or female, or "aggressive".
Quote:One would hope increasing intellect across the board would lead everyone to the conclusion that a socialistic framework would be the best option to prevent anyone from lacking what they need and ensure power doesn't become too consolidated, and of course wealth equating with power wouldn't really be a thing in that kind of system. But that's up to them to decide. I'm just not counting on them ever becoming smart enough to not be fools and wrap their tools, know what I'm sayin', y'all?
Hope in one hand, shit in the other. Being smart (by whatever metric you'd be using) isn't an immunization against crazy, flat out evil, or just general idiocy on any other level. You think that we'll become "smart" enough to realize a socialist utopia but simultaneously not "smart" enough to wear a rubber?
In any case, with genetic engineering, the problem of overpopulation..such as it is, can be solved anyway. We already solved that problem in our fields (how do you think we manage to grow enough food to feed everyone - you don't think that you'll ever run across a tightly spaced tomato forest in the wild, right) - it'll be high on the list of genetic mods for humans as well.
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