3rd December 2007, 7:34 PM
Gattaca was silly. If people want to not genetically engineer themselves they are welcome to. Nothing's stopping anyone from saying "too much" and creating offshoot communities called Amish 2, where everything beyond the 56k modem is evil and corrupting, living in the good ol' days of dying of heart disease and cancer.
YES, if you decide not to enhance yourself you will be at a disadvantage. That's always been true. People avoided glasses at first because they were "tampering with god's design", and their kids paid the price by being at a disadvantage in school. Seriously though if you think I'm evil then in your mind you're probably imagining this speech coming out of every single speaker on the planet as I, the mad scientist have taken control and am giving my speech just before I spread my chaos nano-spores across the world through a magnetic accelerator launch into the upper winds (YES already, I've THOUGHT about it, I wasn't going to actually do it...).
No really I would never advocate FORCING this on people. Further just as today all applicable antidiscrimination laws should be expanded and applied. However, I vehemently oppose the "conserned group of citizens" saying these new "splicers" put their own kids at a disadvantage in school and thus should be banned. What they are really saying is their own hangups are preventing their kids from excelling without monumental effort and that ALL OF SOCIETY should be held back and forced to suffer for the sake of their EGO.
YES, if you decide not to enhance yourself you will be at a disadvantage. That's always been true. People avoided glasses at first because they were "tampering with god's design", and their kids paid the price by being at a disadvantage in school. Seriously though if you think I'm evil then in your mind you're probably imagining this speech coming out of every single speaker on the planet as I, the mad scientist have taken control and am giving my speech just before I spread my chaos nano-spores across the world through a magnetic accelerator launch into the upper winds (YES already, I've THOUGHT about it, I wasn't going to actually do it...).
No really I would never advocate FORCING this on people. Further just as today all applicable antidiscrimination laws should be expanded and applied. However, I vehemently oppose the "conserned group of citizens" saying these new "splicers" put their own kids at a disadvantage in school and thus should be banned. What they are really saying is their own hangups are preventing their kids from excelling without monumental effort and that ALL OF SOCIETY should be held back and forced to suffer for the sake of their EGO.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)