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**MeatteCen** · 05-19-2012, 06:11 AM

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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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?

Actually, we don't know. Perhaps hemophilia genes could confer resistance to some undiscovered diseases. Besides, a combination of seemingly deleterious genes could actually give place to a new, more adaptive organ or structure. For example, the trunk of the elephants must have looked like a deformity at the very beginning, but afterwards it became a useful structure.

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MeatteCen Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 507 Senior Member	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. ---------- Post added 2012-05-18 at 22:05 ---------- 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? Actually, we don't know. Perhaps hemophilia genes could confer resistance to some undiscovered diseases. Besides, a combination of seemingly deleterious genes could actually give place to a new, more adaptive organ or structure. For example, the trunk of the elephants must have looked like a deformity at the very beginning, but afterwards it became a useful structure.
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