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Humans have technology like medical care and a lack of natural predators that substantially mitigates any impact gene pool deficiencies might cause, whereas wil
by koboll 6y ago
Humans have technology like medical care and a lack of natural predators that substantially mitigates any impact gene pool deficiencies might cause, whereas wild animals do not. So there's no real danger that the human population will collapse without eugenics. That isn't true of the wild. This changes the ethical calculus quite a bit.
- lm28469 6y agoA weaker gene pool puts a huge strain on our medical systems though. For examples: the gut microbiome directly impact our health, diets influence gut microbiome, junk food has a negative impact on it, it is mostly inherited from your parents Which means in just a few generations you can end up with massive changes. Diabetes, obesity, cardio vascular disease, cancer, &c. I think we shouldn't have blind faith in tech, we can fix broken bones and a few other neat things but we're far from having the right tools to work on these kind of problems on a global scale, especially since we usually detect the changes after they're too late to properly revert them. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3983973/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3983973/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385025/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385025/ https://www.popsci.com/holiday-junk-food-gut-microbiome-fiber/ https://www.popsci.com/holiday-junk-food-gut-microbiome-fibe... https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/most-of-the-microbes-in-your-gut-probably-came-from-your-parents https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/most-of-the-mi...