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You could just have the government mandate a test, and any embryo that has markers (genetic or otherwise) of a chronic debilitating condition is not allowed to
by jorvi 5y ago
You could just have the government mandate a test, and any embryo that has markers (genetic or otherwise) of a chronic debilitating condition is not allowed to be brought to term. If parents do choose this, the kid will fall outside of the healthcare system for its condition and parents will have to foot the entire ongoing bill.
Eugenics does not automatically mean we all customize our embryos to be 2m tall geniuses with patterned body hair.
More of an aside, but I’ve always wondered where humans would end up if we did do unbridled genetic engineering. Is 2m the ideal height? 1.80m? 2.40m? What would we discover is the optimal IQ? Etc.
- 0des 5y agoI'd probably have a beautiful full head of hair still...
- netheril96 5y agoYou wouldn’t exist in that world.
- 0des 5y agoWhy?
- SkittyDog 5y agoI believe he's implying that your embryo would not have passed the fitness tests, and so would have been destroyed. So you wouldn't exist. Your parents might have conceived again, and had another child who did pass, to whom they gave the same name. But that child wouldn't be you.
- dagw 5y agoIs 2m the ideal height? 1.80m? 2.40m? What would we discover is the optimal IQ? Etc. I think Brave New World treats this question pretty well. We'd probably discover that there is no 'optimal' height or IQ and we'd still need the whole span of "Big Dumb Brutes" to hyper-geniuses. The secret is convince everybody the IQ/physique they've been assigned is the 'actual' optimal and they're the lucky ones that everybody else should envy.
- bigbillheck 5y ago> Is 2m the ideal height I'm just under 2m and I can assure you: it is not.