Hey, have you ever heard about comic sarcasm???
You took my sarcastic post literally.
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
We could also reduce the incidence of non-blue eyes and non-blonde hair. Why stop there!
I'm against suicide in principle, but am for the freedom to end your life if you consciously, deliberately, and voluntarily do so.
People have intrinsic value that extend beyond their ability to contribute economically. Better to carefully engineer genes that create the biggest problems for humanity than to eliminate the burdensome people. After all, 100% of us are burdensome at some point.
Regarding population; it isn't clear to me that the planet cannot hold this large population. All measures of well-being have gone up for humanity despite the growing population.
That isn't to say our numbers aren't without problems, or that it's necessarily good, but we're as well off as ever. The population is likely to decrease via less disastrous ways than those that loom ominously in our imagination.
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