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.
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.