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Old Feb 10, 2004, 07:03 am   #1 (permalink) (top)
Samildanach
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It strikes me as odd that transgenics with regard to human enhancement seems to be almost universally condemned by humanity as a whole. IMHO transgenics is one of our most promising tools to change the human form from being a weak vunerable lifeform to being somewhat chameleon like, ie being able to adapt to any environment through inherited characteristics regardless of where we get those characteristics from. After all genes are just code. Programmers generally don't have any qualms about grabbing code from other places if it fits what they need at the time (although you have to be careful with companies like SCO around :)) however the same principle surely applies.
Humans ie single cells that would develop into foetuses should be genetically edited as soon as possible to enhance desirable environmental survival characteristics as soon as they are researched.


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