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Originally Posted by roachboy
anyway, what i keep wondering in this context is where a line would be drawn between genetic engineering and eugenics...
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I think about this as well.
There are people who don't even have access to antibiotics...or clean water.
Extensive genetic engineering will create a class of people that will widen the current gap between the wealthy and the poor, and the First World and the Third, far beyond our imagination.
However, there is a side of me that says, "Catastrophe." We can easily bungle our genetic retooling. We don't even adequately understand Alzheimer's or why we dream at night. What makes us think we can control our genetic destinies without fail?