You could easily extend that logic to say we should start injecting people with diseases in order to boost human immunity. Give everyone AIDS. The weak will die. Those with natural immunity will survive. Yes there are some with natural immunity to AIDS.

You realise that pathogens evolve with us right?

Yes.

But if we say, become less able to fight off disease naturally because of people who get vaccinated or.medicated in order to survive

It presents a possibility that we are weakening and they are getting more virulent.

I suspect that desginer babies would be a thing long before people would ever dare flood their nation with pestilence to kill the weak.

I do not disagree but that presents another set of challenges.

Just talking it through.

Maybe you think it's a good idea based off your layman's understanding of biology, but I don't.

Fair enough

I am but a simpleton.

I'm aware.

A problem with designer babies is going to be such a pain. Especiall since that much mastery of the genome is probably going to come about the time we can reproduce a human with just one set of DNA.

We can finally agree on something.

I can only hope, @ebowden

That you are as aware of what you don't know, as I am.

lol

Far more actually.

Imagine a bunch of furries being able to produce their own designer kids. What are they going to do to those poor, literal bastards. Or the weebs for that mattter?

It's called the Dunning-Kruger curve, and you and I are in very different parts of it when it comes to biology.

I suspect they will not be allowed, and if they somehow manage to biohack it they'll be put in gaol.

IF it ever even happens.

L o L

Reminds me of that pulp novel series I never finished. Where furries were the bad guys in the second book.

Furries get helicopter rides too

Fucking lol

Really?

i'M EBOwdeN. I'M sO SmArT.

Top teir degeracy.

Furries were the bad guys?

Yeah.

Oh hold on.

Lol what book was that

I've got a whole chapter I finished.

@Whiskey-Vargas I didn't know we had a biologist here.

Years ago I wrote a novel. It was going to be a whole series. I got part of the second one done. However, I didn't ever get the first one published.

I wrote a whole damn novel and choked on the cover letter of all things.

Have you gotten feedback on the novel?

This was back in web 1.0 era. I wanted to go the trad route.

get a literarry agent.

Nevermind I read your comment wrong