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Quote by: springscout  In any case, I'm young, naive, and stupid. Would someone care to enlighten me? |
If you're that stupid surely it would have been better for the human race if you'd never been born
Messing with the human gene-pool is the real potential catastrophe here... eliminate all those characteristics you arbitrarily deem to be "socially undesirable" and you run the huge risk of unwittingly throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Genetic Diversity is a very healthy and neccessary thing. Narrow it down artificially, as with eugenics, and you significantly reduce the possibility of unknown adaptive genes coming to the fore when circumstances change, and we need them more than ever to survive as a species.
In such a scenario - who knows? Even the genes that presently lead to cancer cells might prove to be invaluable.