That, or "a totalitarian regime engineering an army of modified super soldiers". I know they're a liberal pop science channel that make condensed and easily digestable content intended for all ages, but come on
That, or "a totalitarian regime engineering an army of modified super soldiers". I know they're a liberal pop science channel that make condensed and easily digestable content intended for all ages, but come on
If this was the best they could come up with, why dedicate a section to the downsides at all? I was expecting there'd be something
Honestly the downsides are just really technical but basically boil down to "What if we fuck up lol". I see what you mean though. The actual downsides will become more clear the closer we get to it.
I predict genetic modifications to make poor people more able to live in hot environments due to climate change while the ecofascists reign over them without those modifications creating essentially a schism in humanity over where you can possibly live that is based on wealth but is permanently inscribed into your genetic code.
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this is a huge deal with "disabled" communities for ages. the capacity to just wipe out entire cohorts of people, because the majority cannot conceive of the fact that the minority prefers to retain their identities despite the costs forced on them by the rest of society, has always been there and has always been used, but it's faster and more effective now.
that possible world is, in truth, the same as now - these tools don't truly remake the world - but it's homogenizing forces will strengthen with the shape, kind, and brutality of the violence used to enforce normality, in all its forms, will be intensified.
imagine the stigma of "choosing to be trans" after we've discovered a way to edit a gene that causes it out of the majority of the population, or in choosing to continue to have deaf children, or in choosing autism, or, or, or. in all cases, the stigma will spread to the parents and the perpetrators of these new genocides will be lauded as heroes.
and that's all assuming we're ever told this normalization is happening. if people complain too loudly, companies will hide what these edits do behind large clusters of generally positive edits that "everyone". it won't be three, it will be thousands, all obscured behind technical names - EULAs but for the kids.
it's enough to make you hope that we have irrevocably fucked ourselves and ensured our own destruction. I used to be super in favor of genetic modification - transhumanism sounds so cool - but it should never be a thing under capitalism, and probably not even under socialism while we're still working out societal traumas.
Same. The Transhumanist Lib to Radical Lefty pipeline is real. Somehow I played the Deus Ex games and only came away with "Oooh designer prosthetics pretty" for the longest time... I even wanted to work in prosthetics in some capacity, any capacity, until I realized only the wealthy could afford technology I thought would be egalitarian...
It ain't Vietnamese kids with blown-off legs from landmines getting new robot replacements, it's Don Jr. looking to impress his daddy for a minute.
Why would choosing to have deaf children be a positive? Wouldn't that construe child abuse and torture? Pretty sure if you ask any deaf person if they'd like to gain the ability to hear you'd get an enthusiastic affirmative. This ridiculous ultraleft fetishism of the lack of abilities has to stop, it is always better to be capable of doing more rather than less.
the exact opposite is true - the deaf rights groups are adamant that they do not want to be eliminated as a community. they take pride in their deafness and look at attempts to eradicate deafness as genocide. I strongly suggest not speaking on behalf of groups you are neither part of nor have a relationship with - if I weren't informed on this subject, I'd never have spoken.
Ridiculous. Taking pride in deafness is like taking pride in not having a limb - where's the pride? That you can do less with your body? Improving on human weakness and suffering is not genocide. This rhetoric comes too close for comfort to evangelical logic of not messing with god's work.
I'm glad you know better than the people you're casually dismissing. have you considered that you perhaps just hate minorities? otherwise, you could just go talk to the people you're condescending at instead. you might learn where the pride in community comes from.
the deaf community shares languages and cultures that are entirely distinct from hearing ones. it's genocide because to eliminate the deaf population is to wipe out those cultures.
also, as you're definitely a chud that needs to post hog, I'm not replying any further. take your pointless and misdirected anger someplace else.
The bourgeois community shares languages and cultures that are distinct from the proletarian ones therefore dismantling the bourgeois class would be genociding a minority 🤪
A person who can hear can chose to close their ears, a person who can see can chose to close their eyes, a person with intact limbs can chose to sit still or lie down, the reverse doesn't work. Saying you're genociding a minority by restoring people's abilities is akin to saying that giving people a set of gills as a supplement to their lungs so they can easily swim underwater is terran genocide. Maybe it's you who are a conservative retrograde chud and ought to reflect on why you have the urge to torture children.
Gattaca!
I guess that'd be too depressing and that it's easier and "non-political" to just go "a cartoon supervillain could do comic book bad guy stuff maybe, I dunno"
we'll mark them with dark skin so it's easy to tell at a glance (and hey, it will protect them from UV). everything old is new again.