Baraka_Guru

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?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot