• CobraCommander@quokk.au
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    2 months ago

    You’re right, in a post-scarcity society we should let people’s genetic advantage be entirely random.

    Your parents or grandparents had shit luck? Congrats you get to needlessly be worse than other people!

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      2 months ago

      There is a difference between fixing genetic defects and disabilities and making people smarter better faster stronger than everyone else.

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        2 months ago

        So make everybody smarter better faster stronger.

        It’s post-scarcity, what reason is there not to improve the lives of everyone.

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          2 months ago

          The same reason they have in the show, once you start with it everyone will eventually have to, or be treated to good old classism which was already gone in trek. Cant compete with 200iq people who can run 50kph and kick through a concrete pillar, if you excuse the hyperboly.

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          2 months ago

          I guess it’s similar(ish) to

          Sojef: Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives. We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.

          … Like it’d be taking something away from our species evolutionary path. And more.