What's your opinion on eugenics?

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think society is implementing eugenics anyway with it's cultural preferences so it's probably better to do so consciously than blindly.

However there a big problem with unexpected consequences as genes and traits considered bad often have a purpose. For instance high IQ populations usually gave more autism and also suffer from population decline as high IQ people are too risk adverse to have kids.

[–]Titanic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm high IQ and autistic.

I'm sure we could create high IQ people who are healthy, but there are many problems:

First of all, there is a diversity in high IQ. Some are good at art, some science, some poetry.

We don't have the knowledge yet to select in a way that provides the diversity of high intelligence, if we select for a monoculture of poets or scientists we tank our society. If we fuck this up, we could accidentally EXTERMINATE certain types of genes that might be needed to create certain forms of intelligence.

This knowledge will take, I predict, around 500 years to gather, even WITH the exponential increase in our scientific and technological capacity as time progresses. We don't even know what regulatory DNA even DOES yet, and that's most of the issue: coding DNA isn't all there is.

By the time we learn how to engineer a population of beautiful smart tall happy people, our gene pool is going to be so completely sodomized from modern medicine, so absolutely RAPED that it will be too late, we will all be crippled suffering ugly midgets.

On the other hand, if we make medicine illegal, people will just buy them anyway. And also God will punish us for violating people's rights.

So in the end, we need to get together and start praying for God to do this. Fix our genes.

Because otherwise we don't have a fucking CHANCE.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

By the time we learn how to engineer a population of beautiful smart tall happy people, our gene pool is going to be so completely sodomized from modern medicine, so absolutely RAPED that it will be too late, we will all be crippled suffering ugly midgets.

Isn't that just The Netherlands and Latin America?

(I'M JOKING.)

[–]Titanic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The netherlands

The netherlands is still tall and strong, they still have hope left

latin America

Basically. It's unfortunate that they are all short and fat.