It's interesting to think about this because we do, right now, have the technology to edit humans by making changes to the germline (i.e any reproductive cell like eggs or sperm), but the world has more or less adopted a moratorium on it because it's ethically nightmarish and once that door is open it isn't going to close.
I remember there was a decent (arguably healthy) fear of genetic engineering of humans. I think the movie Gatacca sums up those fears pretty.
Not like it was some pervasive fear, but it was there.
It's interesting to think about this because we do, right now, have the technology to edit humans by making changes to the germline (i.e any reproductive cell like eggs or sperm), but the world has more or less adopted a moratorium on it because it's ethically nightmarish and once that door is open it isn't going to close.
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Exactly, shit's hard and that's why we don't have artificially large billionaire failsons yet