What are some arguments against eugenics? I feel as though the vast majority of people would turn their kids into chads or Stacys which would stagnant humanity to a degree.
What are some arguments against eugenics...
Austin Perez
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Michael Bailey
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David Peterson
Answer the question first.
Justin Barnes
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Ryan Carter
Do you even know what eugenics is?
Liam Ramirez
>Do you even know what eugenics is?
I have a vague idea it's using technological methods to alter and select the genes of your offspring. Is this wrong?
Jackson Lewis
eugenics was more about creating specialized classes of workers, like miners that can live underground etc.
Christian Perry
Yes, information such as this is freely available on the Interwebs, have you heard of a site called 'Google'?
Wyatt Wood
probably outdated now that we have robots that can do the same thing.
Jeremiah Wright
That's genetic engineering. Eugenics is basically selection, like with dog breeding. Still, there are different kinds of eugenics, and some are widely used, e.g. women often abort pregnancies if they learn that the child will have serious defects.
Oliver Ward
Let me rephase the question here than as you can't delete threads. Only mods can.
What are some arguments against genetic engineering?
Cameron Brown
>What are some arguments against eugenics?
Regression to the mean makes it nigh useless.
Levi Perry
Okay then.
>I feel as though the vast majority of people would turn their kids into chads or Stacys which would stagnant humanity to a degree.
Personally, I think this is a bullshit assumption. Why wouldn't they improve their children's intelligence as well if they can? One the other hand, what concerns me is that there will be many "perfect" people and very few unique ones.
Landon Cox
>Regression to the mean makes it nigh useless.
How exactly?
Adam James
Because the people in charge of the enterprise inevitably end up using bad data to make decisions, develop God complexes, or both.
Daniel Morgan
Feelings, but it's okay to abort undesirable fetuses, because that's different
Charles Wood
I think he means that if you can no longer continue to enforce it, within a couple generation you lose all your progress. You have to control who people are allowed to have kids with, which is an unethical position to most anyways.
Angel Brooks
>muh unique individual
>muh comparative greatness
Aiden Smith
>eugenics
>implying that human mate selection is random
>implying that people don't instinctively select the best mate available in the vast majority of cases
Nolan Roberts
OP meant genetic engineering.
Aiden Powell
Some gay shit about ethics
Liam Walker
Unironically, Rau le Creuset, a fictional character from Gundam Seed.
Leo Gomez
I think the movie Gattaca confronts an interesting reality we'd probably face when it came to genetic engineering.
As soon as you started making genetically tailored people, the people who were not made that way (in Gattaca's case the choice of the parent, but it could also be due to povery/etc) will be strongly disadvantaged. It can reach a point where you would need proper genes to be eligible for certain opportunities as modified people completely shift the standard. Would these modified people be able to participate in athletic tournaments against normies? It raises a lot of issues, mostly between modified and unmodified groups and who the treatments are available to. Imagine a world where you have a legitimate provable standing to say you're genetically better than poor people, and what kind of fucked up political theories it could spawn.
Still, in terms of long-term human improvement I think it's a net positive. It sucks to be the guy who was born without the magical genetic cure to heart disease or alzheimers, but you shouldn't just let people get preventable diseases because you don't want to make someone feel bad.
Gabriel Thompson
Brandon Rivera
Eugenics was about removing the disabled from the population, and because crime was seen as a mental illness then criminals would get sterilised so they wouldn't have shitty kids
There's nothing wrong with passive eugenics as long as you aren't killing cripples but just funding the superior
David Wilson
Informative, but the presentationis really patroniseing and obnoxious.
Aaron Harris
death of diversity and people will start to engineer humans for certain occupations.
Gabriel Robinson
It's Gong Li, a famous Chinese actress.