The pregnancy wouldn’t have even started yet. It is about choosing which embryo to implant, not terminating pregnancy.

I guess we'll see, but this is very different than bitumen.

I agree with you. The current option is to not have a child. We all must strive to make the informed choices and it is ourselves that ultimately must live with them.

I know a person who chooses not to have children due to the extremely high probability of breast cancer. Would genetic screening to remove that risk be cool? Yes.

But once that box is opened and widespread who knows. We are talking bioethics yet we can’t even agree as a society on the results of the 2020 election.

Canada can't handle the sight of an enclosed pipeline carrying oil, they are certainly not prepared to see quarries of colorful liquid being splattered over native territories.

So your answer is abortion. Ok fair. I haven't had the chance to have a child on account of being fucking broke but I'd like to one day. But if a couple continues to try for a child and continues to have an issue such as downs syndrome or a massive chance of becoming cancer ridden, or have crippling anxiety all their life there's not many better options. We're going to edit genes, if not today then tomorrow. We might as well get the ethics of doing as such down right now.

This already exists, so I can tell you are not a parent. Both of my children were screened neonatal for 198 genetic disorders. The parent can choose to abort fetus. This is why downs syndrome is becoming rare, it’s being actively removed from the gene pool.

Natural evolution is a lot cooler than something we have no idea what the unintended consequences of meddling in genetics would be +1 Gen.

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I have this shit memorized. I argue with Reddit socialist high schoolers on a weekly basis.

Nice google search

What part of my comment made you think I believe people can go full mad science?

Let's say you come from a family with a history of cancer or mental disorders like I do. Wouldn't you want to screen your child to either remove that genetic predisposition or limit it?

Only the... uh... "slower" turtles...

Sure let’s allow people to do whatever the fuck they want because #science! This would never have unforeseen consequences.

Island of Doctor Moreau was originally planned as a Utopia too.

Come on! That’s ridiculous. Everyone knows turtles use ninja weapons.

Saskatchewan and Alberta aren't liberal areas

I was gonna say this. people always look for the most complex convoluted data sets to "solve" some perceived problem. Are you gonna be rich or poor? zip code!

You can already predict this incredibly well by zip code. No need for DNA.

Now you're making a little sense. Smaller, homogeneous population does help, "whiteness" has nothing to do with it. I would argue that high levels of social trust is the key, and this is helped by homogeneity. People are more willing to pay into a welfare system if they think it will help people like them, but this is not an insurmountable problem.

Importantly, Neither Sweden or Denmark are "socialist". They are "social democratic". Sweden outranks the US for business friendliness, competitiveness and entrepreneurship.

"Socialist" means that the workers (or the state) owns the means of production. No private ownership of any companies is allowed (East Germany, North Korea, Cuba until recently, etc.).

Sweden and Denmark derive 70-80% of their GDP from privately owned (AKA "capitalist") businesses.

The Nordic model is mostly capitalist but with a sizeable (but shrinking) state-owned sector (mostly utilities and old-school heavy industry). There are also very high marginal tax rates and a strong social safety net.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E0dWHCnic8

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>And yet, they can’t pint to any other place that it works.

Germany has most of the same policies, and they are a large, successful, diverse country.

Where else has the Nordic Model been adopted and failed?

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Note: Japan succeeded in part because of high levels of social trust and extreme homogeneity, but they stalled out because of terminal demographics. The Nordic countries did a better job of keeping birth rates up.

That’s gonna be an odd profile, cause I’m asking it every crazy thing I can think of

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Because. These are the 2 countries propagated by socialists that argue these are the top tier of our goal. And yet, they can’t pint to any other place that it works.

What is the unique qualifier or difference. Homogeneity and small population. Race is simply an afterthought

Ironic, no?

No, I don't think it will.

Gattica wasn't a movie meant to hype such a society.

Wow, way to miss the point of a movie lmao.

Arguing about possible cascade effects of brine disposal from large scale desalinization that are are not proven or not even studied is the definition of FUD and BS.

Look kid, I have been an environmentalist well before you were born and well before the whole movement become hijacked by law firms, media clickbait’s and politicians, protested pesticides and antibiotics well before it seems normal to do so but you or nobody should simply clump everything up in the same basket just because it has a possibility of harm even if it is an unmeasurable one.

Ecology is about resources and understanding If the human interaction with the environment but, most of all, is a quantitative discipline, like engineering.

We do not need any more demagogues or politicians but sound minded people and defendable data for any claim we make.

In the Gulf of Mexico there is an exposed salt deposit underwater that is worth several millions years of brine accumulation from providing 100 liters of water to 10 billions humans every day.

And it made by the exact same brine because was the effect of millions years of deposits of sea salts.

Any time an earthquake hits that region, an equivalent amount of many years of best desalination plants in the world gets released and change the ecosystem.

We need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot fighting every single insignificant battle and totally losing the war.

We were manipulated enough to kill the nuclear energy in the ‘70, did we not learn anything ?

Selective breeding

They can focus their targeted ads at my AI persona then and leave me the hell alone. My AI is probably better equipped to earn money to buy what they're selling anyway.