Eugenics

[StayHungry]

I was just trying to point out the role people play in this guys world. I didn't actually reveal anything about my own opinion, so how am I being heartless, I don't even really get your response. My opinion is, anyone who has an ideal that involves erasing people I'd say is the person bringing down humanity, since they obviously have no real self worth and only wish to further feed their fantasy life.

[lucksack]

StayHungry,
are you drunk?

What do you mean by "erasing people"?

[Phil153]

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.

[foal]

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tuskegee goes to ethics, and it was a racial thing which is the basis of eugenics (kill nonwhites and inferior whites, in a nutshell).

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eugenics isn't necessarily racist and racism isn't necessarily eugenic. most of the eugenics laws that existed in the 1900s were not race based, but targeted alcoholics, the "feeble-minded", sex offenders and carriers of genetic disease. many eugenics supporters were racist though, certainly.

[StayHungry]

I forgot, but I actually am a bit drunk. None the less, I think you've gotten some great answers Lucksack. If you want to go into depth thinking about what gene doctoring could achieve, write a dystopian sci fi novel, otherwise face the annoying morality of your fellow man.

[Subfallen]

I'll never tire of emphasizing a small, terse fact: 0.2% of the population, 25% of the Nobel Prizes. Anyone care to explain why this isn't worth at least looking into?

[madnak]

So what kind of infrastructure are you looking at? And how do you intend to get it in place?

[StayHungry]

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I'll never tire of emphasizing a small, terse fact: 0.2% of the population, 25% of the Nobel Prizes. Anyone care to explain why this isn't worth at least looking into?

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Cause we're not all obsessed with nerds

[madnak]

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Cause we're not all obsessed with nerds

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...says the man with the Nietzsche avatar.

[StayHungry]

Well he promoted Dionysus and the dancing god, not boring nerds