[grey_whiskers]

Hey Stossel, remember the Master Race and Eugenics?
You’re bringing it back.
Moron.

[neverevergiveup]

This really makes me angry. This isn't ‘science’. It's misuse of technology that is, unfortunately, very easy to use (I could teach probably anyone on this board, in a few weeks, to do what this unethical, glory-seeking, Chinese ‘scientist’ did genetically).

[Nateman]

Genes usually alter many atibutes, not just one. There is going to be a lot of failures before this gets anywhere good.

[rjsimmon]

Imagine, says Brennan, a world where people are much smarter -- maybe smart enough to avoid wars, to take us easily to other planets and to do other things we can't even imagine.

This psycho has never observed human behaviour, has he? Khan Noonien Singh comes to mind.

[PIF]

Eugenics makes a come back ...

[Tench_Coxe]

Dr. Ian Malcolm : Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.

[Socon-Econ]

Nowadays,there’s a gene for everything. If they can screen-out the gay gene that every leftist is sure exists, parents won’t have to worry about their kids coming home from college married to someone of the same sex. Or fearing that the local Catholic priest is paying too much attention to their son.

[Caipirabob]

Miracleman by Alan Moore:

Old Nazi: We have waited so long...Overman, you had come at last!

Miracleman; Yes. You can go now. *BONE CRUSHING NOISES*

[Ezekiel]

Interesting thread title and subject matter. All in the timing (and gene crossing), people seeking the ideal person in all the wrong places.

That’s because they are trying to create him. Truth is always stranger than fiction. God’s order is intrinsically functional, unlike this weird stuff derived from vain imaginations and ulterior motives and worse.

X marks the spot: where this kind of nonsense needs to stop.

[Ransomed]

“Our descendants should have the right to use science to make themselves all that they can be.”

Our descendants aren’t the ones making the choice to use science to change themselves into ‘all that they can be’. Their forbears would make that choice, the people living now. As far as I can tell they change embryos.

I think I know the changes many elite would like to make in their general populations—less aggressive, less intelligent, more susceptible to suggestion and the dictates of the authorities. To create a population that can’t even conceive of how they are repressed.

Freegards

[gaijin]

If your in-utero baby tested poz of Cystic Fibrosis, a lethal condition involving just one wrong nucleotide, wouldn’t you want to snip it out..?

“But God WILLED you to die..!” —it rings just soooo hollow.

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[Tax-chick]

Our descendants should have the right to use science to make themselves all that they can be.

No, they should not "have the right." They do not "have the right." They have the wrong.

However, I find it entirely likely that they will do it anyway, but I won't be there to see them get what's coming to them.