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I all honestly, we can not allow a gene-gap. Forget racism, what happens when a country can actually make it's people "better" (faster/smarter/live longer/stro

• Tade0 9y ago
  The rest of the world either catches up or lands in a zoo eventually.
  • biggerbistro 9y ago
    The fact that more people aren't terrified of this worries me. Hitler may have been wrong with his "aryan superman" view but what happens when there is science backing it up? Not really looking forward to a genetically-enforced caste system.
• zanny 9y ago
  Are you going to declare war over it? Unlike how a lot of science fiction portrayed it, it really does not look like genetic modification is going to be individually costly once it is "production ready". A lot of the fears are of creating an underclass of genetically inferior humans, and then the usual argument is you have to ban improvement based modifications for that reason, but why not just promote not having unmodified births the same way we somewhat incentivize aborting fetuses with significant defects already? All it is moving the bar higher, so that the "average" natural birth just becomes acknowledged as a defect. This is not new - centuries ago children born with even some of the most debilitating mental retardations could still be useful as manual laborers doing the most simple tasks. The abolition of most of those tasks has made is so extraordinary mental deficiency is almost always absolutely crippling, to the degree parents often do decide to abort over it. The bar was raised then. People only seem content with it because it is both uncommon and a burden to them to support the deficient. When we have superhumans, are regular humans not then also a burden?