Stupidity is genetic: Apolyton Eugenics

[Az]

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/science/214107.htm

Watson, one of the people behind the DNA double-helix model, and a Nobel Prise laureate, believes that Genetic Engineering should be used to better humankind.

So? What do you think? Should people be made smarter, and more attractive, by genetic engineering? Notice, noone saying anything about forcefully castrating people, prohibiting breeding etc. Just imagine that this sort of treatment will make all kids great looking, healthy, and smart, while still looking very much like you, ala Gattacka, but without the 'serf' class, with rights of people being protected, and everyone competing on the same level.

What do you think?

I think it's ok. It's even right.

[Rogan Josh]

So what is the definition of perfect?

Hmmm... perhaps we should breed out Jewish genes?

[Dauphin]

If you are all for making people more attractive, are you effectively making the beer goggles gene mandatory.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Rogan Josh
Hmmm... perhaps we should breed out Jewish genes?

I don't care if you are kidding... one more crack like that and you are toast.

[Az]

there are no jewish genes, just as there are no spanish, english or french genes.

and noone talks about perfection as well:
if, IF, he's right, why would making all kids more agile, smart, strong, healthy, would be wrong?

[DAVOUT]

Great looking is a concept that can only exist when there is a diversity of looking. With all girls pretty, we could not even say that they are pretty.

[Dauphin]

Would the necessary treatment be available to everyone for free?

Or would it be a preserve of the rich - to be more intelligent, fitter, stronger - giving only them the ability to get better jobs and more money. Class mobility would be a problem methinks.

[Az]

Great looking is a concept that can only exist when there is a diversity of looking. With all girls pretty, we could not even say that they are pretty.

So, basically, we need ugly people in order to have pretty people?

It's a well known fact, that people search for certain things in the opposite ( or sometimes the same ) sex, physically.

I think that not only this would make everyone more pleased, But will prevent from total *******s getting by with their looks only.

[Az]

Would the necessary treatment be available to everyone for free?

Obviously, YES.

[Q Classic]

perhaps we need to breed out human genes instead.

i favor radical genetic engineering treatments performed over a twenty-four hour period using multiple controlled releases of high-energy nuclear radiation spread out over regular intervals on the surface of the earth.

[Ben Kenobi]

Obviously, YES.

Azazel:
That's a big if for the real world.
How expensive would said manipulation be?

Secondly, what would you change, and why?

[monolith94]

There's no such thing as a 'jewish gene'.

[loinburger]

I'd be all for being given the option to genetically engineer the defects out of my kids, and for others to be given the same option. Why should my kids have to be saddled with myopia and allergies and bipolar disorder and all that jazz? **** those tricks. The benefits that my kids might gain by being blind, asthmatic, and crazy are far outweighed by the harm done to them by said disorders.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Azazel
Obviously, YES.

Why is it obvious?

I doubt genetic manipulation would be cheap, and I doubt many would want it to be nationally provided - I know of no society that provide free cosmetic surgery.

[DuncanK]

Originally posted by loinburger
I'd be all for being given the option to genetically engineer the defects out of my kids, and for others to be given the same option. Why should my kids have to be saddled with myopia and allergies and bipolar disorder and all that jazz? **** those tricks. The benefits that my kids might gain by being blind, asthmatic, and crazy are far outweighed by the harm done to them by said disorders.

Sure, but this is different from trying to engineer super humans.