Genetic Engineering

[Fawkes]

Not entirely sure where this would go, but I'll try my luck with "general."

So, genetic engineering.

If science somehow managed to turn you into your fursona, would you do it? What are your views on genetic engineering? Would you have children who were furry? How about the idea of building a "perfect baby"?

[shadowgear]

Would i like to mutate into my fursona? Yes, that would be awesome.

I looked at this topic because, well, im a mad scientist. I have been working on how you could do this. The main two problems i keep running into are, im poorer then dirt, and chromosome count.

[Beatnory]

No, I woudn't.
I'm happy right now so why should I do it?

I looked at this topic because, well, im a mad scientist. I have been working on how you could do this. The main two problems i keep running into are, im poorer then dirt, and chromosome count.

I think... No I'm sure of it, You will become the best scientist if you can do this 

[anoni]

We are created from hundreds of millions of years of natural selection. Those with faults die, those without faults survive. Under such a long amount of time you'd think that the best of the best were the only ones left? I believe that's true if the process wasn't pretty much random, we've gotten what a pretty good system of our bodies, but it was all made randomly and through trial and error. I see the human body as a really messy program, it works fine, lags a bit and sometimes has the occasional bug, but the code itself is so messy and incomprehensible there is no chance of really editing the body without trial and error (aka medicine).

  So I think genetic engineering could be a way to clean up the code. I think genetic engineering would be good, it would give a lot more freedom to people, allow people to live longer, survive better, maybe need less food or resource? The options are near limitless and we could really start to evolve humanity in the direction we want. That said, we're talking about changing a billion years of evolution, it's not something we're going to be able to get perfectly in 50 years, there's going to be mistakes and people will become deformed or killed. Bad things will come of it, to some people, in failed tests, things that we don't really understand, we are trying to be as careful of it as possible but there is basically no chance to have a perfect flawless system. It's whether the ends justify the means, in most cases I don't think they do, but here I think they might. A few dead people to save 7 billion people from extinction due to over crowding, disease, famine and resource?

  I think genetic engineering is very complex, very hard to change, but it is possible. I think that it should be done.

[Fawkes]

You mentioned evolution. Don't you think that changing our genetics is a crime against nature? That it's morally wrong? Are we "playing God"? What about overpopulation?

[Beatnory]

anoni I disagree with you, the one who invents this get a lot of power, I don't think that all people can directly use it only the rish people.
So they can use it to make the world as they like.

Also I'm afraid for this, and then I think "I live well. why should I change this"

You mentioned evolution. Don't you think that changing our genetics is a crime against nature? That it's morally wrong? Are we "playing God"? What about overpopulation?

a man is his own boss, so it's his own choice. What
I  fear is that someone will decide on several people

[anoni]

anoni I disagree with you, the one who invents this get a lot of power, I don't think that all people can directly use it only the rish people.
So they can use it to make the world as they like.

I don't think it's correct to say that genetic engineering will be invented by one person. But I do see what you mean, as science is funded by rich people and thus the rich people can have what they want. I don't think that means that we should lay off genetic engineering all together though, it just means we need to make sure it's used in the proper way. Science gives us the facts, it's up to us on how to use it.

You mentioned evolution. Don't you think that changing our genetics is a crime against nature? That it's morally wrong? Are we "playing God"? What about overpopulation?

No, I don't think changing our genetics is a crime against nature, I think it was natural for us to evolve in such a way so we can alter our genetics so we're not fighting nature. Yes, we may be playing god in the sense of going over people and as I said there probably will be mistakes, but I don't think that's wrong. Well, overpopulation depends, I doubt we'd genetically engineer things to intentionally overpopulate our society, so I don't know if overpopulation would be too much of an issue as long as we're smart about it.

[shadowgear]

I agree with you anoni, (i dont know how to use quotes with my cell.) Genetic engineering is not a crime. But there will always be people wanting to take it to far. (Resident evil's albert wesker is a good expansle.) genetic engineering is not the crime. Useing it for your gain only, is.

[Fawkes]

Have any of you seen the move GATTACA?

The movie trailer doesn't do it justice.

[anoni]

I have not,

What's it about? Is it related to Genetic engineering

And also, Wesker is awesome

[MrRazot]

Look up the episode "DNA" of the british comedy Red Dwarf.

But then also play bioshock

I don't think it's a crime or morally challenging. It would potentially save lives and even the planet.
We would be able to alter ourselves to handle new extremes and send the human race into a mass expansion across potentially even the universe.

However in the bioshock scenario, we're all buggered

[Fawkes]

I love the idea for Bioshock but I can't play it...I'm too jumpy.
GATTACA is about a society where everything about you is based on genetics, and people can genetically engineer their babies to be perfect, but it creates a hierarchy of people who are genetically engineered over those "faith born." So this guy has a younger brother who's genetically engineered and he is not. So basically, he steals another person's identity to have perfect genetics to get into GATTACA, which is a prestigous organization revolving around space exploration and stuff. It's a good movie.

[Aoren Deringer]

I'm pro genetic engineering. Although perhaps not yet to that extent, mostly gene therapy. Been into that for years.

[Beatnory]

I'm pro genetic engineering. Although perhaps not yet to that extent, mostly gene therapy. Been into that for years.

Do you thing this is going happend, that people can change themself?
And also is this a good thing for the world?


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[anoni]

1. Sure, anything is possible
2. Yes