The downside to genetic engineering

[You Killed Jesus]

When everyone's genes have been manipulated to make them smart & beautiful, there will be no more stupid & ugly people to make fun of!

 

[voodoo]

There will always be mistakes too...

 

[Eflex tha Vybe Scientist]

Originally posted by voodoo
There will always be mistakes too...

Lets not forget that subtle differences in enviroment will cause unpredictable mutation

 

[kmguru]

To us, all Japanese look alike. I wonder what type of bigotry and discrimination goes on in Japan among their own group? They must have found some subtle differences....

 

[Stryder]

I don't think it will be much different from now. It won't be down to genes... it will be down to MONEY.

People with omeny can afford to splash out to make themselves more beautiful (as you know this already occurs with plastic surgery) while those of a lesser monetary disposition have to suffer or make do.

I'm going to keep well away from Genejacks.

 

[Assasin001]

Have you seen Star Trek? There is a race that pops up every now and then called "THE Q" that is what the human race will be like if this geneticly improved human crap stops. I or one will not be a part of it. If you had minds of your own neither would you, not even for infantry.

Assasin001

 

[kmguru]

Is not that before Moses time, people lived to be over 900 years?

 

[grazzhoppa]

To leave a gene that will stay in the DNA and be passed on by the germ cell, is far far far far far far far....off. Gene therapy (finding a certain gene and removing it or replacing it) can be done to cure certain genetic diseases (like Bubble Boy syndrome) but that does not get passed on to offspring.

 

[Clockwood]

I think the human form is far too limiting. Perhaps we will completly leve it behind.