RE: Questions for American Atheists
June 30, 2012 at 8:13 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2012 at 8:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 30, 2012 at 2:13 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: This wasn't what I was suggesting but at the end of the day, what would be wrong with it? So you've altered a few chromosomes to make your child smarter, so what? Now you've altered a few more to make him kinder and a few others to safe-guard against genetic diseases and defects. Perhaps make him more athletic too.
At what point is any of this a bad thing?
Read moar Sci-fi......... Are you honestly having trouble imagining why this road would lead to tears (just judging by your appraisal of why communism never panned out). Off the top of my head, who decides what we encourage and what we "disable"? Who gets access to these procedures and how are they done? Can anyone opt out? If you're not much of a reader try Gattaca or THX1138
Smarter- Excellent, here's to hoping everyone can avail themselves of this procedure for their children, lest we find ourselves in a transparent (and much more dire) two class society, the altered and the unaltered, owners and possessions.
Kinder- Oh yes, despots the world over would be interested in such a procedure. I know I'd rather have a herd of human cattle to have to deal with if I wanted to rule (lazily) with an iron fist.
Genetic Diseases and Defects- Again, a good one, but I'd rather not see any stormtroopers come over the hill on account of this one, and I hope everybody gets access to it.
Athletic- See stormtroopers above..lol.
Lets imagine a similar scenario with only a single point of divergence. Smarter, genetically "perfect", extremely athletic, and about ten times more aggressive and apathetic than your standard human (bonus points for built in unwavering loyalty to command structure). The technology and system would likely be the same. Bit of a pandoras box situation don't you think? Personally, I don't think we're quite ready for that sort of tampering yet. I do think we'll end up trying it out long before we have any business doing so, learning the hard way is kind of our MO.
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