Thread: Eugenics
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Old 09-08-2006, 02:21 AM
Mickey Brausch Mickey Brausch is offline
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The inherited disease type arguments are kind of irrelevent in terms of this thought experiment. Even without eugenics we will (or could) get to the stage of being able to avoid all of them.


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How so?

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We will (or could) get to the stage of understanding genetics well enough so that we filter out, or correct for, any inherited disease.

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But their point is that these diseases are closely tied to the increased intelligence because of the effect on the brain.

Even so, we're a looooong way from knowing genetics that well.

[/ QUOTE ]But let's f*ck around in the lab anyway.

That's what proponents of eugenics bring along.

Mickey Brausch
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