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Will some number of people do it on a black market? Possibly! But I think that's worlds away from broadly accepted eugenics for non-dangerous characteristics. S
by wpietri 5y ago
Will some number of people do it on a black market? Possibly! But I think that's worlds away from broadly accepted eugenics for non-dangerous characteristics. So I think eugenics is only inevitable in the same sense that slavery is inevitable: we may not be able to eliminate it totally, but we can certainly keep it very much to the margins.
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- cjbgkagh 5y agoI don't think the taboo of eugenics has any particular durability to it. I think it'll flip rather quickly. You'll get places like Eastern Europe, Russia, and China doing it and all of a sudden we'll have to do it to in order to 'remain competitive'. Weaponizing drones was taboo for about a nanosecond, now we can look forward to a future WWIII with flying robots raining down death from above, all because it was more convenient at the time.
- wpietri 5y agoThat one taboo falls quickly is not proof all of them will. The eugenics taboo has endured for more than a century, which sounds like particular durability to me.