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    I mean there are some options for dealing with that.

    A. Early monitoring in childhood followed by extensive therapy

    B. Eugenics if a genetic link is identified (least savory option and likely not possible)

    C. Rebuild our social circles and communities

    To expand on C, I think a lot of what you’re identifying as narcissistic behavior or sociopathy is actually caused by the destruction of our communities. The way our society is built it rewards anti-social action with money and it’s cold and depersonalized. It’s easy as a upper executive to fire 500 people you’ve never once met and you will never meet. You don’t have to know them beyond a few spreadsheets of data. People will absolve themselves of personal responsibility and refer to the financial aspects. Additionally, our communities have been destroyed. The addition of the nuclear family structure encourages you to provide as much as possible to as few individuals instead of valuing extended family and community. Plus in some places in the world it is possible to go days or weeks without ever interacting with members of your community.

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          Yeah these days it’s just altering in vitro. We have the tech, but we are rightfully frightened by it. It’s hard to deploy in a way that it does good and is not abused

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            Even sterilizing people to try and produce a specific result is eugenics.

            … not that I’m in favor of it without a TON of causational evidence for something, since plenty of great people come from absolutely shit parents. Not to mention that not all people with “undesirable” traits behave undesirably.

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              The sad thing is we do have the potential to shape a healthier human race. The potential to cure all genetic diseases and have a better future. We have the technology today.

              Unfortunately we cannot be trusted to use it. It will 100% be used to target minorities and harm people to create something racists ideal. It’s kinda sad

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                    Nah, we have the will, we just don’t have the ethical foundations as a species to do it “correctly”. I guarantee you there are many labs around the world fucking with embreyos right now. It’s only a matter of time before some less scrupulous lab allows one to grow up.

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                    Technology isnt just things that have batteries and go ‘beep’. Technology is also systems of organization and coordination.

                    So no. No we don’t.