(November 12, 2009 at 7:53 am)theblindferrengi Wrote: This is starting to sound like an Orwell book, and as far as I know, there are no North Koreans here, so thats not going to happen.
Aldous Huxley actually. I was making a reference to "A Brave New World" when I mentioned epsilons. In that wonderful book they stratified society into 5 grades of people: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilons. Alphas were the genetic creme of the crop and would be leaders, scientists, and engineers. Betas would be clerical staff and managers. Gammas would be service workers. Deltas would be hard laborers. Epsilons would perform menial tasks like pushing buttons in an elevator... no really. Alphas would not be cloned, betas would only have a limited batch, gammas would have several clones each, while deltas and epsilons would be cloned to the furthest extent of cloning which was 96 times according to the book if I recall correctly.
Sae,
The reason I mentioned drugs is because the discussion of eugenics made me think of what our goal would be, which led me to imagine the strata of Aldous' book, which is why I mentioned it at all. The goal of eugenics would be to improve society and there are other ways, besides genetic manipulation, to acheive that goal.
Rhizo
