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But then the poor would die out, and we'd be left with a world full of rich, beautiful, toned people 
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pssh, the poor will never die out. They have the highest birthrates. We'll just have an ever shrinking, ever more powerful elite.Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
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Than what? The biggest preditor these days are automobiles, and it's unlikely that even genetic engineering can make a human stand up to one of those.Originally posted by Oerdin
Genetic engineering would be the way to go since everyone wants their children to have every advantage possible. Think about how you can make sure your child is smarter, faster, healthierRethink Refuse Reduce Reuse
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You can't really have rich people without poor people."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
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The thing that people (Oerdin, Hitler, ect..) forget when talking about engineering the perfect / flawless person is that it's the flaws that give a person character, and it's flaws that make beauty endeering.
It's flaws, quirks, and pecularities that make us humans rather than automatons.Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse
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I have no flaws, yet I have tons of character and am very "endeering"
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exactly.Originally posted by General Ludd
The thing that people (Oerdin, Hitler, ect..) forget when talking about engineering the perfect / flawless person is that it's the flaws that give a person character, and it's flaws that make beauty endeering.
It's flaws, quirks, and pecularities that make us humans rather than automatons.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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You still end up with less disease and more fit humans. For at least the rich any way since this would likely cost a lot of money. Most of humanity would continue on as they always had been but the rich would be able to afford designer children who literally were genetically superior.Originally posted by BeBro
IMO the end result would be some kind of "arms race" to get constantly even more advantages.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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People will still have character flaws. They just won't get diabetes and have their legs amputated at 35. They won't get heart attacks at 40. They won't get alzheimer's at 60. They won't need glasses or hearing aids. They'll just be fitter, healthier, and smarter but they'll still be human so there will still be character flaws.Originally posted by General Ludd
The thing that people (Oerdin, Hitler, ect..) forget when talking about engineering the perfect / flawless person is that it's the flaws that give a person character, and it's flaws that make beauty endeering.
It's flaws, quirks, and pecularities that make us humans rather than automatons.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Odin, you know that a lot of mental illnesses are genetic?
Additionally, society might end up as in one of the Foundation books... where society comprises of a hundred or so individuals...
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Generally, no. But I can imagine parents who're concerned about 'deaf culture' deliberately trying for a deaf baby.Originally posted by General Ludd
Is it wrong to have deaf kids?Comment
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Deliberately, yes it is.Comment
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Does nature not require variety in order to suvive?
Without obese people, diseases. baldness, etc; what vital discoveries would we have missed out?
Genetically engineered children are for those who are proud and vain about their lives. They are the white picket fence families who stick their chin up.
I think what we're going to see in the future is not one race of perfect people, but one race of perfect variety. Sameness has just never sat well with humans, its not in our nature, it's in our nature to destruct, change, be different; some will be super intelligent, others will be super fast runners, others will have purple hair, red eyes and green skin, tells jokes all day and parties all night.be freeComment
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and why stop there, after all if you can get rid of mental illnesses or other defects, why not 'undesirable' personality traits too?Originally posted by Jon Miller
Odin, you know that a lot of mental illnesses are genetic?
those who strive for physical and mental 'perfection' in people, lose sight of what it means to be human."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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