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Originally posted by Tantalizer
I feel that the scientists should be concentrating more on finding cures for diseases instead of wasting their time on this crap.
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Eugenics means lots of things to lots of people. The International Congress of Genetics concluded that the term 'eugenics' is used in so many ways "as to make it no longer suitable for use in scientific literature".
Having said that, eugenics almost certainly covers "finding cures for diseases" and therefore should be something you support. In fact eugenics goes one better than cures, it is about creating humans who will never suffer from cancer, cystic fibrosis, myopia, asthma..... in the first place
The first big success for genetic engineering was the production of insulin by genetically modified bacteria. Eugenics merely takes genetic engineering one step further: rather than having to modify bacteria to create something that cures diabetes, why not modify humans so that they never suffer from diabetes in the first place?