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Originally Posted by duga
There will still be plenty of diversity as long as we allow natural genetic recombination of a "normal" genome. Making sure you don't have an extra X chromosome is not unreasonable and surely doesn't add to the fitness of our species. There are a lot of theories on this...but essentially, we have halted our own evolution just through our medical breakthroughs. These "faulty" genes would have been filtered out through natural selection if we lived naturally. So now it's up to us if we want to eradicate things like Alzheimer's or Lou Gehrig's.
I'll have to watch that video you posted. I'm fascinated by the whole thing myself.
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Diversity is my main concern whenever Eugenics is mentioned and it kind of scares me because of that fact but if it's like you claim then I wouldn't have too much of a problem with it getting rid of certain diseases that preventable through the removal of certain genes.