RE: 2012 Debunked
November 11, 2009 at 6:30 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2009 at 6:31 pm by Violet.)
Rhizo Wrote:What you are talking about here is called eugenics and has been imagined by several people including me. The only problem with eugenics is deciding which traits should be masked out and which should be encouraged.
It seems the next logical step to try to strengthen our genome or maybe even specialize different sets of people by purposly handicapping some of them so they won't be bothered by an active mind while they set to the drudgery of their workday. We could call them epsilons...
Apple Dictionary Wrote:eugenics |yoōˈjeniks|
plural noun [treated as sing. ]
the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
What does eugenics have to do with drugs???
Although you would increase productivity of the society (with those drugs)... it would cease to be a society... it would be a machine. How is denying an active mind a logical step? All that does is lower technological achievement, individuality, and everything that makes us human. We would essentially become the failure that is the Hive-Mind. As a race, we would cease to function.
The strength of humanity... is that we are individuals who work together. The weakness of the Hive is that it is of but one mind. However much you think it might seem the next logical step to reduce individuality: that is the least rational thing you could possibly do.
With voluntary eugenics... many medical problems could be bred out of us. We would also see improvements in whatever category we are breeding for.
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