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The problem in Gattaca world is not the genetic modification. It is the assumption that worth of the individual can be judged by genetics alone, that fitness fo
by chr1 8y ago
The problem in Gattaca world is not the genetic modification.
It is the assumption that worth of the individual can be judged by genetics alone, that fitness for the job can be determined by something other than merit.
In this way Gattaca is a really harmful movie, it decives viewers into thinking that genetic editing is bad, but in fact shows only failures of a non-free society, which is bad independantly from any technology.
- crimsonalucard 8y agoI find it bad in the sense, other people can be modified to be superior at birth while it's already too late for me.
- chr1 8y agoI agree that is sad, but already many people are way smarter than me without any artificial modifications. If i could pick i'd prefer to live in a world where there are thousands of people like Feynman and most people are smarter than me, instead of a world where all people are about as smart as me, and progress in science is correspondingly slow.
- crimsonalucard 8y agoSure there are people smarter than you. But I don't want to be pushed lower on the rung of the ladder of genetic superiority. An important human need that has to be satisfied whether we care to admit it or not is that we need to feel better than others at something.
- chr1 8y agoI wouldn't worry about that either. If it is about superiority of children much younger than you, you do not have anything to worry, because they'll be superior anyway simply by being much younger. If it is about children that will become adults before you going to pension, you should be only happy about them being significantly smarter, because that will increase your chances of learning about new science, having much better computers, and maybe even living much longer, if they manage to make a good progress in biology.