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explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoImagine if we got genetic engineering back when everybody inherited their parent’s job. People named Smith would look like dwarves.
Comment on Iron
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoImagine if we got genetic engineering back when everybody inherited their parent’s job. People named Smith would look like dwarves.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yes, most humans would be genetically designed living tools to serve the few real, pure bred, unmodified humans
For them liberation would only mean death, not that they could imagine life in different way
for copyright reasons, they would also all be sterile of course
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I find it surprising that you think the rich and powerful would not choose to genetically enhance themselves (their children) to be smarter, more attractive, etc. They would surely be the first to do so.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yes it does make sense that they would give up their identity, their being, their humanity just for a leg up to win a place in the machine, for a shot at running the machine, king of the shit hill, that does explain a lot.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I don’t really get how you’re getting all that from polygenic selection – the current state of the art in legal eugenics. Polygenic selection is just like, choosing the best of n embryos; any one of these babies you could have conceived naturally, it just boosts the odds a little. Anyway, it doesn’t affect oneself, only one’s children, so nobody actually gets a choice, and nobody’s identity can be given up. What you’re saying doesn’t even make a lick of sense.