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Old 05-19-2012, 06:02 AM   #12
Podborodok

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well, now we have some form of eugenics also, because the dumb people are getting more children than intelligent men, and getting more help from government aids, when in a natural environment they would be the first to die out..
Perhaps we're engineering a more docile population? In some ways that's a good thing. Who wouldn't want to be a child their entire life? Sure beats the existential crises that come with high intelligence.

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Even in those cases the line is difficult to draw. For example, thalassemia is definitely bad, but in heterozygous individuals talassemia-codifying genes can offer protection from malaria.
Then forget about eliminating the ambiguous ones and focus the effort on the ones that are unquestionably bad. There aren't any benefits to having hemophilia, or some for of the gene responsible for it, for example, are there?
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