Yet you defaulted to make it illegal to change the sex of an unborn child. I will say I disagree with said option of choosing to change sex but don't think it should be illegal.

What if you do a screening and find a gene that predisposes the child for a heart defect? Or a mental disorder? I'd say it's ethical to attempt to edit those genes.

"Oh but designer babies. The rich will just give their kids the best."

Yeah. And? I'd be more concearned if parents didn't attempt to get what's best for their kids. If you take two chess grandmasters and have them fuck is that a designer baby? What about two Olympic level athletes? Or is that different because it's natural?

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I didn’t say I wanted to make genetic screening illegal. Also You can be pro-science and pro-ethics. It’s called bioethics. Look it up

Yet you want to make genetic screening illegal.

Gattaca never seemed like a particularly awful world.

The technology used legitimately created smarter, faster, more musical, etc, people.

Given that the protagonists parents were presented as middle class (at best) it also appeared that the technology was widely available and reasonably affordable.

The protagonist was fundamentally unfit for the position he was seeking, he had a major heart defect that meant he was all but certain to die under the rigors of a long term trip through the solar system.

The only "downsides" shown in the movie seemed to be that some people's parents were shitty and refused to offer their children the best potentials possible.

why would you cringe?

Not at all

are you anti science?

Good! Eugenics is the future of humanity, it's not a nasty word at all

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what are you talking about? There's only 3 types of intelligence

Why should race make any difference?

no High IQ people do mostly well in life

It would be much cheaper to check your bank account/s, investments, and zip code.

Sounds like people working with broken reality models.

You may want to go look at your comments. You mentioned Japan. I retorted with high suicide rate. I mentioned that everyone points to those 2 countries, and yet, it’s 99% white. I find it ironic.

We all know a little post traumatic stress can vastly pivot success factors just as much as being raised with a lack of resources, lack of parental contact, and and mental illness factors.

You can throw a embryo with a potential high IQ into 10 different environments/cultures and get 10 different outcomes entirely.

Kids with privilege are raised by nannies and boarding schools. Poor kids by family, grandparents, foster care, or relatives.

Either one can turn out to be a success or a criminal.

Goodbye future Steve Jobs, bill gates, mark Zuckerberg

Maybe, but it's also often ignored by the progressive community as well, as in they ignore the need for massive storage capacity to back up renewable power.

Anyone who could afford this doesn't need it to begin with

it happens so often it's something to expect eh... high fructose corn syrup creating obesity, nicotine causing cancer ... the evil is endless, it's a human nature that wont go away. ...What can we do ? outlaw making profit ? ... no, that's a nonsense. We expect the profit motive to run rampant, it's negligent or incompetent governance that's the underlying systemic problem. What we need are tools that can help us organize and manage resources fairly. What kind of tools will be able to resolve the economic complexities of society? ...

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I'm glad you don't have any deadbeat drug addicts in your life. Keep on dreaming.

> it isn't a priority in the legislature

There we agree, and I think that's much more relevant than the population (overall and/or homeless). The government here just doesn't care.

Cost them? They die anyway on the streets. I would rather die under a roof, we give dogs and cats such comfort, but not our fellow men.

It's none of my business if somebody wishes to be high all day, at one point I would even make sure drugs of choice are clean and safe to use.

We already have reached the level of productivity to see all our basic needs met at low costs in terms of required manpower/working hours.