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What thing would be nice to have but can't have it because we can't trust people? (piefed.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I actually think it'd go way deeper than McRacism and even "class," interestingly.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, look at pugs and tell me humans are capable of the kind of careful long term deliberation needed to decide the genetic future of a species.

    And even that framing has too narrow a scope. Can't separate you from your microbiome, can't separate an organism from it's ecology. If you could somehow have a eugenics project free from prejudice (fat fucking chance), you run into the problem that a eugenics program would be an unrealistically complex and long term undertaking, prone to terrible mistakes even from the most well meaning practitioner.

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