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I am but one voice among many but since you asked, I hope future people<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>will be EVERY possible way.</blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">That's what we have now. And it includes many different kinds of mental retardation, hundreds of genetic diseases that prevent most of them from being 'fit'.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Homogeneity whether it be genetic, cultural,<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>or economic is brittle in the long run and is ultimately a recipe for<br>
extinction. I want diversity and redundancy.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Who said they had to be all alike? Different jobs,different genetics. And we are not going extinct now and won't unless we destroy our environment.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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As an alternative to eugenics, I would propose the concept of agoragenics.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>That is a fancy Greek way of saying the "genetics of the marketplace".<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span>What genes and associated traits should someone have? The most useful and<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>valuable that they can afford. </blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ideally, all people should have access to genetic technologies.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There is no more need to centrally plan the<br>
future evolution of humanity than there is to centrally plan the economy.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">No planning = chaos; poor planning = the Chinese effort to curb population by making one baby all you can have. We know what happened with that plan.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Instead, we should allow maximal morphological and functional freedom b<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">y </span>whatever means possible and let supply, demand, and healthy competition<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>sort out the winners from the losers. And if that means that humanity<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>evolves into numerous different species, then so much the better.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Again, that's what we have now. Where is the role for genetic manipulation to increase fitness?</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> To try to stay as we are in a changing universe is certain<br>
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Stuart LaForge<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Good. So let's decide what environments we want and bring them about, and design people to fit them. Potential problem (among many) - someone gets less than the full load of IQ genes and asks why. So why not make everyone as adaptable as possible? But maybe if you want math geniuses you might have to ignore some other factors, or even repress them because they would interfere with the person'a math ability.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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