[Samildanach]

Ok....mother nature....lets see...what did mother nature do for us.....hurricanes, disease, floods, death and disaster. I am not a nature advocate nor will I ever be. Nature is just the untamed environment that we evolved in theres nothing special about it apart from the fact that it produced a lot of other nasty predators we had to compete with. The filtering down process is something that occurs naturally anyway, why waste valuable resources on something that is more or less inevitable. Take for example any technology and slowly it travels around the planet. Computers are getting through to third world countries etc..albeit slowly but they are getting there. I disagree with cosmetic surgery..thats just an extravagance and has no functional purpose. The enhancements I am talking about will be primarily functional rather than cosmetic. In fact cosmetics should be sacrificed in favour of functionality. I agree completely with your analogy about traits and mating, not mating. Thats the way it is. Where do the unwanted traits come from?.....they are traits that used to offer a survival advantage in a specific environment and at one stage may have been the most desirable trait at a specific point and time. However they have been superceded by other traits as time went on although they have continued as any survival trait tend to become widespread.