Originally Posted by regal
The day some "international scientific organization" decides what sperm fertilizes my wife's egg is the day that our liberties are totally lost.
No, I'm talking about screening already fertilized cells. Don't forget that any progeny you create is going to affect the future human gene pool, so your libertarian thoughts simply do not apply since by procreating you
are affecting other parts of humanity. More and more individuals are doing such screening, and my guess is that will actually have a worse effect than no screening at all, since it will tend to produce very similar people in the long run by selecting for a few specific attributes. But no intervention at all doesn't work as I explained before due to lack of any selection.
Who wants to live in a fascists state like this ? Why the need to breed a superior race ?
We don't, but as I already demonstrated, doing nothing will make the race inferior as detrimental mutations accumulate over time, without any selection to control them, and result in more suffering in the long run. It's not about improving humanity, but about at least maintaining a current level of gene quality, and at the same time an appropriate level of diversity.
I supposed you would like to see the "independant thinking" gene removed from the gene pool.
LOL! You're trying to brew more
FUD against me than Microsoft about open source.
The rest of your post gives examples that have to deal with misapplication, and you are making assumptions as to how I think it should be implemented. I don't see where you're getting this, since I never touched the issue as to what is selected for. I simply presented an argument showing some sort of artificial selection is necessary, not how it should be applied. Of course there are many potentials for abuse, but that goes for essentially everything.
Why use a headphone forum as a pulpit for disguised propaganda?
The subject came up, and I never shy away from any topic. Propaganda is based on spin, whereas I've presented logic. If anything, you're the one using propagandistic tactics such as the Nazi comparison, and as you see others in this thread have noted the same.
Originally Posted by rsaavedra
Environment conditions might not be too different for a human egg and a fungi
Huh?!
There is a lot more complexity than simply "here's this sequence, assemble this protein accordingly."
Yes, but that information must be stored somewhere, and DNA is the primary storage mechanism (unless you're a retrovirus).