What if we could be genetically engineered?
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Hypothetically, let's say you decide to have a child, and science gave you an option to make that child smart, nonviolent,
Genetically they would look like you and display your best traits, but any defects would be weeded out.
We'd live in a world where no one would have the urge to walk into a theater an kill people. People would be selfless and only act to make the world better for everyone.
People would decide to limit their children to prevent overpopulation. Not cheat, not kill, not rape, etc..
Basically if we could engineer everyone to get along and do what is best for the survival of the human race.
Thoughts?
Genetically they would look like you and display your best traits, but any defects would be weeded out.
We'd live in a world where no one would have the urge to walk into a theater an kill people. People would be selfless and only act to make the world better for everyone.
People would decide to limit their children to prevent overpopulation. Not cheat, not kill, not rape, etc..
Basically if we could engineer everyone to get along and do what is best for the survival of the human race.
Thoughts?
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take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Nobody had anything that the masses didn't feel comfortable with?
Steven Hawking would be out... what parent wants a child who'll grow up to have ALS?
No Michelangelo... no fags.
Cher? Nope. Let's weed out the dyslexics.
and of course, we'd want non-violent and obedient people... a bunch of slaves who do what they're told.
I hope I die long before that happens.
and I agree with the above post. I adore differences unlike some..
I'm certainly glad that I won't be part of such a world.
Godfather.
:ugeek:
I'd be totally against it.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
Has Star Trek not taught us anything?
And this -
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
are we absolutely sure she wasnt created in a lab somewhere? :corn:
- We'd have Hawking, but he'd be able to think AND walk.
- Michelangelo would be able to paint, invent, etc, but not be gay...hey wait I think I've been set up here.
- We'd have Cher (okay again I think I'm being set up here :P ), but she'd be able to sing AND read/write without effort.
But... does being gay make one more creative? Does being gay make one more artistic?
Ok but MANY very powerful people in the GOP say that being gay is like being an alcoholic or a kleptomaniac or a rapist... so... yeah... who gets to decide?
But if she could write... would she have become a singer and actress? She says she chose to sing in bars because she couldn't type or work jobs that required reading and data...
That's actually not true. The Common Cold is just your body over-reacting to an otherwise harmless virus. Nobody has ever died of a cold.
Although I know what you mean... medical advancements help people live longer... I just worry that they will be used to keep some from ever being born.
As to Cher, I'm not a fan overall but loved her - along with Sonny and Chaz - as a kid (she was a V-A-M-P, vamp!) And in Moonstruck.
I also have an iron candleholder in our bathroom and a huge gorgeous papier-mache sun hanging on our living room wall, courtesy of her now-defunct catalog, "Sanctuary".
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
it's why we get along so well.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Other defects shouldn't be messed with.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
:thumbup: You'd definitely like me then.
The problem with the whole idea of this is that it promotes eugenics, which is wrong on all levels...
And some of the genetic tampering that we have done in food and other areas is still relatively new. How do we know that we wouldn't screw that up somehow and create far worse problems than already exist.
Personally, I like defective people as well - makes life more interesting
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
I AM MINE
DEFECTIVE HUMANS, UNITE!
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I'm in.
See you in the Lounge car!
So, as posted in another thread, 1 in 5 of us suffers from mental illness...hamm, there's about 10 of us in this thread...
So true, JonnyPistachio!
The sad thing about mental illness is that it still often caries a stigma. If the kidneys fail we are given care and sympathy. If the mind fails, we are locked up in places that are often as bad as prisons. I've known people who have been there.
Most of us have or will have imperfections- myself included. It's not that I don't want to be the perfect me that I once was ( :roll: ...
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Other than that, I'd vote no on the genetic engineering
"I need your strength for me to be strong...I need your love to feel loved"