I was not aware of this - I stand corrected. — Devans99
However, I think it is probably a transitory evolutionary phase that we are going through and genetic engineering will pull us out of this phase (of sub-optimal selection during reproduction). — Devans99
genetic engineering will pull us out of this phase (of sub-optimal selection during reproduction). — Devans99
..the educated may CHOOSE to not have kids — ZhouBoTong
but we would have to ban "natural" births to prevent the "negative" genes from being passed — ZhouBoTong
You are not coming over as snarky - getting to the truth of the matter is what's important. — Devans99
That may sound quite like Brave New World, but then I did not find that book to be a completely dystopian view of the future. — Devans99
I have not read 'Island', the utopian counterpart of Brave New World — Devans99
I believe the MAC approach would result in a lessor impingement of personal freedom - through the economies of scale applied to child rearing - than the traditional 2 parent family approach, so the better educated in society would be more attracted to it. — Devans99
I think however, both the natural and genetic communities would speak the same language and I am only really advocating genetic engineering for increased intelligence, not extra limbs or anything like that. I think it would be an extension of situation we have today, people with IQs ranging from 50 to 250 all live in the same community, it is just there would be a concentration of genetically altered folks at the high end of the spectrum. — Devans99
To say that we are going to intentionally create upper and lower classes using genetic engineering is obviously going to be a huge problem. Unless we engineered away any sense of morality, MANY of the smart people at the top would say the system is BS...but with some minor adjustment it could be a wonderful system (the "happy" drugs would be for those who CHOOSE to go through life that way...and then they can be assigned the "lower" jobs in society because they don't care as being happy is more important). — ZhouBoTong
If you haven't watched "Gattaca"... — ZhouBoTong
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