Re: Eugenics
We're nowhere near the stage where we can understand the consequences of our attempted improvements. Giving people happy genes may well destroy much of art and the subversive roots of innovation. Giving people beauty genes might destroy some of the variability required to survive things like radiation increases, toxins and plagues.
Beyond that, there's the question of man playing God. I think it's an inherently bad idea for one person to determine the mental and physical makeup of another. We don't know enough about ourselves, our world, our universe and what may lay beyond it to do such things.
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