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It seems we're racing towards the events of Gattaca. It's easy to dismiss the movie as being similar to the far fetched distopian depictions in Minority Report
by pdelbarba 10y ago
It seems we're racing towards the events of Gattaca. It's easy to dismiss the movie as being similar to the far fetched distopian depictions in Minority Report, but in this case we actually have the technology to make it a reality.
- Afforess 10y agoI might be alone here, but I always felt Gattaca was misunderstood. The dystopia was that society allowed non-enhanced humans to be born. Allowing an underclass to exist, voluntarily, was the mistake. Genetic-engineering healthier, better people sounds great. Let's just make sure everyone has access.
- rhcom2 10y agoI could be misremembering but I thought the character who was non-enhanced was born that way on purpose due to the choice of the mother. Gets a lot more ethically dicey when you start talking about forcing people to genetically engineer their children or face them being forced into a underclass.
- pdelbarba 10y agoYou're correct. I think the other point is that regardless of the path we choose, there will be a period where not everyone will be genetically engineered due to availability (older people who were born before it was invented, people born to poor or conservative families)