3 ms·
I don't think that's at all what you should get out of Gattaca on discrimination. Rather, even in a world where you have people who are statistically overwhelmi
by readams 4y ago
I don't think that's at all what you should get out of Gattaca on discrimination. Rather, even in a world where you have people who are statistically overwhelmingly likely to be better in every way, the morally right thing to do is _still_ to allow people the same opportunities to excel, and succeed or fail on their merits.
- kanzure 4y agoBingo. It's mostly a story about discrimination. Unfortunately it is mistakenly used as a cautionary tale to slow down or prevent progress on genetics.
- chii 4y ago> the morally right thing to do is _still_ to allow people the same opportunities to excel, and succeed or fail on their merits. let me play devils' advocate for a minute: should the cutting edge of human endeavour (in the case of the movie, it's going to space) be available to all and sundry, even tho statistically the superior humans would do better and thus achieve the goals of said endeavour? If it costs the equivalent of billions or even trillions of dollars, would you make the choice to allow equal opportunity to all, at the cost of potential mission failure, rather than discriminate heavily and only allow those considered perfect? I agree that discrimination is usually bad. But is it really discrimination, or is it competition, to only allow those that would be statistically overwhelmingly likely to be better to do the thing?