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I remain unconvinced that the inevitable existence of e.g., designer babies will inevitably lead to forcing people to have them.

• SoftTalker 4y ago
  Forcing no, but those who could afford to do it would engineer superior children, and society would rather quickly devolve into a caste-type social system or worse.
  • mcculley 4y ago
    It is inevitable that more people will be able to exert more control over their reproduction. I agree that this is likely to amplify the human tribalism that already causes so many problems. I still don't see how that inevitably leads to “20th century eugenics” nor why we should discourage or fear research.
  • Nasrudith 4y ago
    You haven't had children, have you? They don't neatly fit into plans or develop to top down desires.Thinking the children will be superior is extreme arrogance even if it all works out and they are born immune to cancer. It puts too much faith in one advantage determining all. Under that catastrophic social model the elite should have been descendants of the elite from before the Bronze Age collapse, and heavy cavalry should have maintained their combat effectiveness over the masses even during the Infantry Revolution.