• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 year ago

    i call this the ‘tipper gore affect’. aka, ‘you see what you want to see’

    im kinda hopin we dont go down the full-on genetic editing path as they did in the movie… maybe just hardcore embryo defect filtering for know diseases/errors

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      1 year ago

      It’s not even the genetic editing that was the biggest issue, IMO. It was the pervasive surveillance and discrimination that was even worse.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why people are so against this. Literally anyone whose relative died from a “rare” disease wouldn’t care if instead they were born in a time where it was prevented via genetic editing removing the offending genes.

      Genes… Blood who cares? Total strangers from opposite sides of the globe can love eachother and two family members from same parents, of same blood, can kill eachother, it’s irrelevant.

      Humans did this sort of thing to everything around themselves and it has done nothing but benefitted us. You think apples have this much flesh to bite into because god made them that way? No, literally we made them this way.

      Selective breeding is very primitive form of genetic editing, it’s still done today even, for example in dogs, and everyone loves dogs for some reason, even those that can’t breathe properly because of how they’re bred to be.

      What is it that causes people to think it’s an abomination only when they’re the subject of it?