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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.

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                    Organization and coordination are technology though. They don’t just happen. We create tools like phone trees and group chats and meeting structures and ‘roles’ and junk. Sometimes we do it in really horrible ways like feudalism/capitalism. That’s no less technology than a faster less fail prone way to close an artery, or a knowledge of what parts of the EM spectrum will travel best here, and how to use them to communicate.

                    Fundamentallu capitalist conception of what a thing is; that a think is the bit you can possess, can own, and nothing else can realky be operated on or understood.