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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.

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                    It’s the technology that goes “beep” the organization and coordination is what I would define as the “will” and that’s what we lack.