Message from @Sam Anderson

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2018-11-28 18:35:12 UTC  

Is Nature herself immoral by allowing some to have inferior genes?

2018-11-28 18:35:15 UTC  

@missliterallywho maybe there is honestly I don’t know. Frankly I’m biased towards Europeans so I really don’t care if others follow that imperative

2018-11-28 18:35:49 UTC  

Nature is amoral

2018-11-28 18:35:56 UTC  

@Auf WI Yep. Both good and disappointing (interesting subject, explored from a "Hollywood" perspective).

2018-11-28 18:35:57 UTC  

Off to the Gym for some non-transhumanism gains.💪

2018-11-28 18:36:02 UTC  

@missliterallywho I don’t care about what nature thinks it’s an amoral force

2018-11-28 18:36:42 UTC  

If we can manipulate it to help our people for the better so be it imo

2018-11-28 18:36:44 UTC  

@hbutzer0511 nice im making my way through the Bell Curve and Black Rednecks White Liberals

2018-11-28 18:36:54 UTC  

I feel for those of our people incapable of producing healthy offspring, I really do. But I do not think it is our duty or right to play God/tamper with Nature to change their fates.

2018-11-28 18:37:36 UTC  

Interesting eugenics argument going on here I see

2018-11-28 18:37:45 UTC  

if ya had a chance to change your fate......would ya?

2018-11-28 18:38:11 UTC  

Then why was it our fate to make medicine?

2018-11-28 18:38:20 UTC  

Create cures to already cured disease

2018-11-28 18:38:24 UTC  

@missliterallywho I’m not worrying about playing god

2018-11-28 18:38:37 UTC  

@MrBland - VA Yeah, I mean, I think we're pretty much all in favor of soft eugenics, but hard eugenics and/or gene editing is where it gets dicey...

2018-11-28 18:38:41 UTC  

Forgive me for not scrolling back to the beginning to catch fully up but it looks like you are referring to the CRISPR (sp?) thing

2018-11-28 18:38:41 UTC  

If you had the chance to change your fate would you actually be changing anything? 🤔

2018-11-28 18:38:52 UTC  

Nature/god can punish me, but I’ll feel vindicated if it means people are healthier happier and safer

2018-11-28 18:39:15 UTC  

@Bjorn - MD Nature is in favor of soft eugenics. That's just selection.

2018-11-28 18:39:50 UTC  

If suffering gives life meaning, would not the removal of suffering render life meaningless?

2018-11-28 18:40:05 UTC  

Buddah comin in witha hot take

2018-11-28 18:40:06 UTC  

Suffering from diseases does not give life meaning

2018-11-28 18:40:08 UTC  

lol

2018-11-28 18:40:08 UTC  

Soft eugenics, hard eugenics, where do you draw the line. Gene editing just seems like a fast forward of what nature does to me.

2018-11-28 18:40:12 UTC  

I'm just asking questions 🤔

2018-11-28 18:40:27 UTC  

@Kingfish good news you don’t have to worry about that at all, I’ve never seen a single incident in history where either nature or a metaphysical Force has favored the weak or stupid over those who are strong or smart.

2018-11-28 18:40:30 UTC  

Suffering is more than just disease

2018-11-28 18:40:55 UTC  

What moral basis are you using to judge eugenics?

2018-11-28 18:41:01 UTC  

Yeah you’re grouping together all suffering as giving life meaning where frankly I disagree

2018-11-28 18:41:08 UTC  

@Sam Anderson wait is there something bad about blonde hair blue eyes genes if there's too many of them?

2018-11-28 18:41:10 UTC  

I’ve worked with lots of people with developmental disabilities. If the topic didn’t seem so sensitive I’d love to have this convo with them and their families

2018-11-28 18:41:15 UTC  

@MrBland - VA The one each person here made up lol

2018-11-28 18:41:16 UTC  

Suffering from diseases isn’t giving life meaning imo

2018-11-28 18:41:17 UTC  

We can suffer by trying to colonize the galaxy

2018-11-28 18:41:20 UTC  

@TylerHess have you seen modernity?

2018-11-28 18:41:44 UTC  

Is it a religious basis, or a "benefit to humanity" kind of subjective morality...

2018-11-28 18:41:52 UTC  

If I get a disease like Alzheimer’s I’m killing myself because that’s not living in struggle that’s just suffering for the sake of suffering

2018-11-28 18:42:08 UTC  

i insist its not about morality but the implications for all humans especially europeans if we have the ability to do it

2018-11-28 18:42:10 UTC  

@VinceChaos the exception proves the rule, the inferior are self destructing

2018-11-28 18:42:10 UTC  

If had kids I would totally give them blonde hair and blue eyes lol

2018-11-28 18:42:11 UTC  

@MrBland - VA Well, two uncontroversial exmaples of soft eugenics would be state-enforced monogamy and a state prohibition on incest, whereas a historical (and inadvisable) form of hard eugenics was forced sterilization.