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**JewJoleSole** · 05-19-2012, 06:40 AM

It would suck! Everyone will choose the same traits for their children, and humanity will end up being a heap of inbred people. Besides, how can we know what are the most adaptive traits? For instance, a negrito could be the best genotype for times of hunger. Likewise, a tall, slender, and dark African is best suited for the tropics than a bulky, red-haired viking, whereas the opposite is true for the North Pole. Have you seen the movie "Gattaca"? It's quite illustrative.

Gattaca, even though a quite watchable movie, has a fundamentally flawed premise i.e. that human spirit/endeavour and ‘selected genetically engineered traits’ are mutually exclusive, which they obviously are not.
Even if you hypothetically consider human spirit/endeavour to be a 'ghost in the machine' then this doesn't exclude the usefulness of having a superior (genetically engineered) machine.
And if you consider human spirit/endeavour to be genetic (which is most certainly is) then this trait can be genetically engineered for.

05-19-2012, 06:40 AM	#2
JewJoleSole Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 384 Senior Member	It would suck! Everyone will choose the same traits for their children, and humanity will end up being a heap of inbred people. Besides, how can we know what are the most adaptive traits? For instance, a negrito could be the best genotype for times of hunger. Likewise, a tall, slender, and dark African is best suited for the tropics than a bulky, red-haired viking, whereas the opposite is true for the North Pole. Have you seen the movie "Gattaca"? It's quite illustrative. Gattaca, even though a quite watchable movie, has a fundamentally flawed premise i.e. that human spirit/endeavour and ‘selected genetically engineered traits’ are mutually exclusive, which they obviously are not. Even if you hypothetically consider human spirit/endeavour to be a 'ghost in the machine' then this doesn't exclude the usefulness of having a superior (genetically engineered) machine. And if you consider human spirit/endeavour to be genetic (which is most certainly is) then this trait can be genetically engineered for.
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