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Originally Posted by August
Might as well be ok because someones gonna do it eventually and it will really magnify their advantage if they're the only ones doing it.
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Absolutely, it's like nuclear physics, you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
I reckon the PRC might wind up being one of the first, they've got less regulations on it, so if anyone is going to make the first step it'll be them.
Of course, when I was making my ramble above, I did forget to factor in one thing...nations. If genetic enhancement begins giving people of a certain nation advantages over another, it may well spark a genetic arms race. I mean, imagine if in a years time someone in the PRC made a breakthrough that enhanced the intelligence of people. The state would immediately classify it, and only allow it to the 'right' kind of people, which in a generation would give them an intellectual edge over every other nation, so the US would have to investigate it and then release it somehow to the public and...well the domino effect could be crazy.
Sooner or later I could foresee it being outlawed, but it'd just go underground.
It's hard to say, it really is, there's going to be a lot of fear-mongering about it, and some of it will really be justified.
Although by this point you will both be dead, and I will be ready for being made into Soylent Green.
