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[psych/neuro, phil/ethics, movie review, sci, Patreon] The Dangerous Dualism of Gattaca

Dec 07, 2015 23:52

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Comment Catcher: The Dangerous Dualism of Gattaca siderea December 8 2015, 05:04:13 UTC

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Re: Comment Catcher: The Dangerous Dualism of Gattaca siderea December 8 2015, 06:22:13 UTC

Indeed! That is pretty much the upshot, only not as bad as in reality.

Re: Comment Catcher: The Dangerous Dualism of Gattaca heron61 December 8 2015, 07:15:58 UTC

I very much agree that Gattaca is indeed worth seeing, despite the suggestions it makes that unengineered people are in some way morally or spiritually superior to engineered ones. However, discussions based in it leave out one important aspect of the technologies involved. In addition to genetic engineering of humans, there’s also genetic surgery of the sort that has almost certainly be used by various Olympic athletes for the last several Olympics ( ... )

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