I strongly object to putting GeneSmith’s “Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence with Gene Editing” into anything even remotely associated with racism.
Like, in my completely normal and boring german high-school we discussed designer babies and the complicated ethical tradeoffs around them, with the class being quite split on how humanity should handle these technologies. The vast majority of discussions of human genetics and intelligence have nothing to do with racism or race, and implying that a prevalence of those topics would be indicative of some broader cultural trend in a direction of racism is something I really dislike.
This can especially be the case in a crucial way when a hyper-focus on race by itself can derail attention needed on the highest-stakes issues in terms of human genetic engineering that would impact people of all races. This could probably be the decade of any since the around 1970s when these debates started that they’ll no longer just be thought experiments debated by bioethicists.
I strongly object to putting GeneSmith’s “Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence with Gene Editing” into anything even remotely associated with racism.
Like, in my completely normal and boring german high-school we discussed designer babies and the complicated ethical tradeoffs around them, with the class being quite split on how humanity should handle these technologies. The vast majority of discussions of human genetics and intelligence have nothing to do with racism or race, and implying that a prevalence of those topics would be indicative of some broader cultural trend in a direction of racism is something I really dislike.
This can especially be the case in a crucial way when a hyper-focus on race by itself can derail attention needed on the highest-stakes issues in terms of human genetic engineering that would impact people of all races. This could probably be the decade of any since the around 1970s when these debates started that they’ll no longer just be thought experiments debated by bioethicists.