FLawEdmiNd

I wish I could've been on earlier while this was still hot...

But anyway, everything you all said seemed very thoughtful to the subject, yet it also seemed as though you were pulling stuff out of you bum (hehe).

First off, people should be happy with who they are, we should learn out limits and live with them. But we can't. Limits are there, taunting the egos of the egotistical, so they're broken and forgotten. We can travel space can't we?

I remember hearing this somewhere, "You are unique - just like everyone else." Does that count here? Bringing in the topic of everyone being special and how changing our genes would make everyone the same, but aren't we already the same? Unique, like the other six billion on the planet, well.. I can see it working both ways.

gwen, you raise a really fun question.

A while back, I read this really awesome article on futurism. Apparently, people are going to invent all this stuff, like robots, ones that can have conscious thought. They're trying to make a computer with the processing power of the average human brain. They don't have it down quite yet.

Anyway, in the future, we're going to be able to live until we're 100, and we'll be able to upload ourselves into cyberspace. Oh, and the fridge will be smart enough to know you ate that cheese cake when you weren't suppose to.

So, is living to 100 truly something good? Well, it's going to be the future, so you won't look to old and won't be limited in any way. But is that truly the kind of medical advancement you want gwen? No sickness, the elderly out painting the town red? Meh, it seems admirable, but kind of sad too.

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deodaclan18

pulled out of our bums eh, well you enjoy your controlled future where you don't get to decide what you like. As for everyone being the same already, I could've sworn the world was full of different people with different traits, but if you want everyone to be the same.......................

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OdysseanPromise

Genetic engineering a sure fire way of ruining a civilization. What if technology existed for humans to live for 120 years? Our civilization would have to radically change everything in order to deal with the increased length of working years. Overpopulation would become a terrible problem, oh did I mention that it would create a ravine between the rich and the poor?

Also, I don't think we have considered how this would affect crime. Crimes of jealousy and passion, especially at the onset of possible advents in this technology, would abound as people would kill their ex-wives who took their alliemony to pay for surgery to look like they were 21 to have dozens of new suitors while he worked to pay for it. What about the radical backlash against something of this nature? Bombings of these clinics would go on in the same way people bomb abortion clinics because of their "unnatural" slant to life.

Nothing about it says that it is a good idea.

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FLawEdmiNd

What if everyone was the same though? Wouldn't quell the radical crimes that would surely ensue? Overpopulation could be readily taken care of. Didn't you read the post? People can upload themselves in cyberspace and never die, apparently. Now that part of the future, I disagree with. Immortality in any way is very displeasing to me.

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OdysseanPromise

Uploading your consciousness onto teh intarwebs isn't really genetic engineering, so I didn't address that.

As for overpopulation, the only solution to that is to kill people to make space. Well, I suppose you could shoot all of the poor people into the sun, but that would kill them too. Fact of the matter is that doing something like that would only cause more problems than we need.

Besides, are you telling me that you want to be the same as everyone else?

That is your ideal reality?

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Namida Goddess

I would love to be a lot stronger than I am now but genetically speaking I don't think to the extent I want is not going to happen in the near future. Intellectually speaking I would rather gain more wisdom on my own.

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lebasiara

Nice answer deo!!!!

It is true that changes exist but I don't believe that we humans have to provoke or make changes any faster.

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rematche

eventually the world will be devided by 2 type of human race the "natural" and the "artificial". and there will be war between the two because of dicrimination.

hmmm...that sounds familiar.

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lebasiara

Humanity is messed up already.... so that'll be more problems than we already have.... I think is better not to mess up more....... plus.... I think of humans more than an experiment

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Lead

ooo a topic on ethics...

I'm for Genetic Engineering, its the way of the future (its already in some food products) and it'll only be a matter of time before everyone is able to afford it. If it can enhance the growth and strenght etc of somethings, why not put that use for thet sick and those who are waiting on organ donating list, combine this with cloning then who knows where we could go if it.

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baikuza

i do not understand why we should alter other (human)?
it remember me about God. since it said some thing like altering the mind.

what i'm thinking here is God do not alter our true personality.
He know that threre is no need/it is useless if He alter our mind and do not let us think by our self. (in my prespective)

so.. after all.. i think it is useless to alter the society we build up. if we do it, they just like a robot or doll after all. don't you think like that. and i think it is better if we let free them to gain their own consciousness.

by the way it is different on animal other than human. because i think their existence is for our goods

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