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Curious how long Richard Dawkins thinks a multi-generational system of forced mating, pregnancy, and birth could "work" given the obvious human desire for autonomy, and empathy between experimenters and experimented upon. @RichardDawkins/1228943686953664512?s=19On twitter.com
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A few problems in declining order if moral importance; 1. Forced breeding is rape. 2. Healthy childbearing and -raising requires willing parents. 3. There has never been a multigenerational consensus on what makes a better human.Permalink On twitter.com
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4. "Improving" one trait can weaken another and only a multigenerational testing regime could ever figure this out. 5. No empathetic experimenters would ever maintain moral integrity while perpetuating such as system through lifetimes with no positive interim results.Permalink On twitter.com
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Obviously this is one data point on the long list of sci-fi ideas that only make sense if you imagine reproduction occurs spontaneously instead if through actual persons.Permalink On twitter.com
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My line of thought here builds on philosopher Mary Midgley's comments on the ethical impossibility of engineering superhumans.Permalink On twitter.com