“It was the opposite of Eugenics” You even left that in there. Do you even understand what the piece said? Can you explain it? Not quote it, explain it.
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Summary: low income parents should have their children genetically engineered. That's, er, eugenics.
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Hypothetically, were it possible, he's advocating it. Not at all a slippery slope you feel?
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And by the way, eugenics is the word HE used and its definition is "the science of improving a population by controlled breeding". Tell me that isn't what he was advocating.
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You're missing the point. When the technology to genetically raise intelligence is created, it will give countries that decide to use it (China, etc) a strong competitive advantage. The government's position will be forced by public demand to change if we're not competitive.
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No, you're missing the point.
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Seb Insua @sebinsuaReplying to @sebinsua @gouldina and 2 othersWith or without policy changes, wealthy British people will travel to countries that allow the procedure to genetically improve their progeny. If the children of rich people were smarter, stronger and more attractive it would dramatically increase inequality.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
If you let this happen under the guise of "helping the poor" and ignore all the ethical considerations, it will inevitably be used by the rich, for the rich.
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That is exactly the point, but you have it the other way around. Genetic engineering will be used by the rich on their own children, in order to make them smarter, more attractive and stronger than poor children. It will create inequality.
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But the reality is: who will be incentivised to provide the gifts that rich people give their own children to all citizens? Probably nobody. It's just a depressing thought experiment.
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