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Re: What is the most important engineering problem of our future?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
It's called eugenics. Google it and look it up on Wiki. It's been historically unpopular because it would pretty much end up treating people as a collection of desirable and undesirable traits. More or less slapping a great big number on your forehead rating you for all of time and telling you how worthy you are of having kids.

See also Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and the movie Gattaca.
NO NO thats not what i mean at all! What im talking about is not stopping people from breeding but fixing genetic problems they might pass on to their children.
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