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How would this ever cause dystopia?
by hasenj 9y ago
How would this ever cause dystopia?
- fratlas 9y agoSeen Gattaca? This coupled with the concept of anti-aging research, interesting times lie ahead.
- brianberns 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
- Yuioup 9y agoMuliticlass society based on who can afford the treatment and those who can't.
- jjjensen90 9y agoDon't we already have that in the US and other countries without socialized medicine?
- adventured 9y agoEven countries with socialized medicine have that. If you're rich and Canadian, you're not going to wait eight months for your procedure, you have other options that money provides. The same is true in most socialized medicine nations. There is almost always a superior therapy or doctor available somewhere in the world if you can afford it.
- dbbk 9y agoEight months is an exaggeration.
- chrischen 9y agoSystems, even mechanical systems, have a tendency to harmonize or synchronize. If you put a bunch of metronomes on a moving platform they will start to synchronize. If you put a bunch of people on a swinging bridge their footsteps will synchronize. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112749056/synchronized-body-movements-social-bonding-121412/ http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112749056/synchronized... If you start a trend, people will follow it. If you give people the ability to modify their DNA people will start copying each other, reducing gene pool diversity. What may seem like a trendy gene modification could quickly turn out to be disadvantageous, or even deadly. Imagine if everyone found it cool to possess the skinny gene. Skinny genes are currently very popular, especially among hipsters, but what if a worldwide famine comes? Of course it can become crazier than that, as there are trends with injecting cement into posteriors, plastic surgery on faces, injecting toxins into faces, huffing glue...