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07-18-2014, 10:42 PM | #11 (permalink) | ||
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Keep in mind that we're not just talking about a few "inferior" children. We may very well be dealing with a serious threat to the genetic integrity of the human race that might weaken our ability to advance or even survive as a species. That could certainly be one option.
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07-18-2014, 10:49 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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Human beings are like 99.99% similar genetically and the way we come to be who we are as people is still not fully understood. There are some truly exceptional people who manage to accomplish astonishing things despite their obstacles. Then there's those who are born of privilege and have an easier time acclimating to life's challenges. Then there's everybody else. Then there's the **** ups and the dregs. The notion that a person could inherently be smarter, stronger, less susceptible to disease, or whatever else because they're of a certain heritage is just... impossible. It's just science, people like to act like they're so different from one another but in the grand scheme of things those differences are very small and almost definitely have more to do with their surroundings than anything else.
But, Let's just say that somehow people of German descent were in fact, somehow, genetically engineered to be more capable human beings than people of any other heritage. That still doesn't justify any sort of interference, certainly not genocide. In fact, I'd say it would be better to share those genes. I'd rather have a bunch of average people and no genocide or weird elitist breeding circles than a bunch of brilliant people and human tragedy.
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07-18-2014, 10:52 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
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But whether you can do that as a government without being under fire by a larger, supposedly more "civilized" country where people breed freely, including those with ancestors having extra chromosomes or inability to feed the spawn they've already churned out ... that's the big question. Can you do it and get away with it cleanly?
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07-18-2014, 10:59 PM | #18 (permalink) |
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Yep.
I don't place a lot of value on greatness. But that's just me. There are a lot of "great" things in the world that I could very easily do without. Frankly I'd probably be happier as a hunter gatherer. Doesn't that sound awesome? Just living in nature. Sleeping in tents. Playing in drum circles. Sounds a lot better than having to fake a personality just to get ahead in life and have a decent job.
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07-18-2014, 11:00 PM | #19 (permalink) |
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That might not even be necessary. We're pretty close to cracking the human genome and it might be possible to just extract those genes altogether during pregnancy sooner than you'd think. As in, within the next few generations. Have you seen the mice with ears on their backs? I'm vehemently opposed to animal cruelty but that **** is amazing. There's even mice that can glow in the dark because genes from a firefly were implanted in them.
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