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Smart genes

topic posted Tue, November 7, 2006 - 5:21 AM by  Roy
Order your baby here! Hair color? Sex? IQ?

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien.../850358.stm

The next question is, if one can add these genes to an adult would it help? Maybe we could slip a gene upgrade cocktail to a certain very high level polititian in the US!
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    Re: Smart genes

    Tue, November 7, 2006 - 8:57 AM
    Hes a puppet anyway.

    It would be scary to see what happens when you increase the intelligence of evil amoral people.
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      Re: Smart genes

      Tue, November 7, 2006 - 10:12 AM
      Who's a puppet? The baby?

      It's scary what happens when we allow evil, amoral people to get any advance in technology, fast cars, planes, better weapons, the Internet or whatever. If, however, we never make an advance because these misfits will possibly take advantage of it, we will never go anywhere. The same holds for the ridiculous idea that we should not make any advances because the first to get these will be the wealthy! This is the social equality syndrome, well meant but unworkable.
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