Despite being positively amused, I think this is an extremely bad idea (and will probably strongly downvote it once my downvote isn’t enough to censor it completely). Any embryo selection not meant to prevent horrible diseases, is getting us one step closer to resuming eugenics.
Yeah it didn’t really occur to me that that was what I was advocating till a while after I had the idea.
But I do mention that it’s meant more as a proposal for a future scenario where eugenics(might be too strong/loaded a term) is considered acceptable or becomes inevitable because of competition between individuals. In that scenario it would be better to push heights down than up.
Still I think we should keep an open mind.
There might also be ways of reducing average height other than gene editing, which wouldn’t technically be eugenics I guess.
Despite being positively amused, I think this is an extremely bad idea (and will probably strongly downvote it once my downvote isn’t enough to censor it completely). Any embryo selection not meant to prevent horrible diseases, is getting us one step closer to resuming eugenics.
Yeah it didn’t really occur to me that that was what I was advocating till a while after I had the idea.
But I do mention that it’s meant more as a proposal for a future scenario where eugenics(might be too strong/loaded a term) is considered acceptable or becomes inevitable because of competition between individuals. In that scenario it would be better to push heights down than up.
Still I think we should keep an open mind.
There might also be ways of reducing average height other than gene editing, which wouldn’t technically be eugenics I guess.