Re: [DIYbio] Re: Which country has the most progressive human GM laws? China?

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> This has been happening for generations, kids keep getting smarter
> not wiser.

I think the fact that the average standard of living has increased
almost universally in the last few centuries, coupled with the fact
that proportionally, homocide has practically never been this low,
puts the lie to that.

Wisdom *always* lags behind knowledge; it's possible you could even
draw a direct relationship, such that "Wisdom" (for certain values of
wisdom) is a function of knowledge + time. The fact that wisdom lags
behind is not a good reason to shun knowledge.

However, one *could* make the case that we should focus not on raw
intellect but on ability to "reason" more generally. There are plenty
of highly intelligent but totally unreasonable people out there
causing harm to their fellow person: rather than just making more
bright people, you have a point that we should focus on the factors
(mostly environmental and not genetic, I suspect) that lead to good,
effective people who may help advance society and not merely themselves.

On 04/07/2013 08:05 AM, R Annie O'NieL wrote:
> wow they finally came up with a functional way to screen brilliant
> babies, i don't know whether to be elated or just feel miserable
> about the chaos we might descend into. I'm not being pessimistic
> just realistic. Once they go on to actually imply this rule they
> are just going to come up with more and more innovative 'ideas'
> that may not necesserily be good for the earth and humanity in
> general, more weapons of mass destruction, political tactics to
> dupe 'less smarter people' etc. when are they going to discover
> genes that make people work harder, think ethically and morally
> sound, be responsible for our actions. with this genes we are just
> getting smarter not wiser. This has been happening for generations,
> kids keep getting smarter not wiser. you have to consider the fact
> that with mental aptitude comes responsibility.
>
> On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:04:06 AM UTC+5:30, Nathan McCorkle
> wrote:
>
> While this article is really talking about informed selection, and
> not actually performing any genome editing, it got me wondering...
> Where should I go to have my unborn fetus tweaked when I am ready
> to have kids?
>
> http://www.vice.com/read/chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a-massive-genetic-engineering-program
>
>
<http://www.vice.com/read/chinas-taking-over-the-world-with-a-massive-genetic-engineering-program>
>
>
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