Now we have mapped the human genome, would you be in favour of developing a special breed of humans?

Question

Physically beautiful, of limited intellegence, sterile, docile and complient, together with a spearate set of laws that pertained to these neohumans?

Answer 1

It is good that you give this your attention, Dr Evil. We are glad to have a man of your talents working on the project of breeding special humans. We hope they will be more useful than robots, and good at martial artists.

Answer 2

Your parents might be that very thing.
Where have we gone right in getting our intelligence, promiscuity, activeness and complacency across to you.
When listening we hear this.
Cats breed the strongest and weakest to compliment each other and no we don't have all the answers like that guy growing organs without moving them about in the oven he cooks them in.
I certainly don't and your state of loneliness perplexes me, from your menu you'd choose limited and your learning lessons hasn't thought you that you are already complient. Ask the government.
We are a special breed of bipeds already can we just focus on bringing the scientists up understanding thats not the reason why such research has been carried out and hopefully we wil grow from the competitiveness of the questions and answers we hope to find excelling our race to inevitability.
Or Better Yet! Make them immortal so they can look after your kids.

Answer 3

Yes, but not at this stage of human development - I mean within the next 1000 years. Man has to develop some other essentials before attempting this step. Man is in advance of his capabilities to handle what he is discovering. He has to strengthen the base first, then build the towering MAN. I am specifically referring to the underdeveloped "inner" man. The mind, the soul, the self, the consciousness, the telepathic powers and the like .. those have not got their fair share of modern development.

On the other hand, science is in advance of the mind. The mind is yet to be discovered. We only utilize 8-12% of our brains at the most with the help of the computers!! Can you imagine what would happen to this creation if a child of 4-year old had the power to play with our genomes? This the same case. Our "current" mind compared to the potential capacity in the human brains is the same as a 4-year old child compared to a man of 70 years old.

Answer 4

Why?
We are a long way from being able to do all that in a specific sense, but in a very real sense we do it now with selective breeding, arranged marriages, accepted societal norms, social classes, birth control, . . .
Many times in history women fit many of these criteria, except the sterility. Anytime slavery was accepted in history we had a class of humans that closely fit the standard you outline. There was always some fly in the ointment and the downtrodden were able to improve their situation. If we managed to create a breed of humans to use and abuse shamelessly we should also be prepared for the fly to appear in our ointment, too. There would be genetic 'throw-backs' with brains and intiative who would resent the poor treatment and low social status. They would organize and eventually use our complacency to change the system into their favor.
So why would you want to do this? It doesn't sound fun, fair or reasonable to me.

Answer 5

No agreed upon "map" exists for the genome. It is also obvious to the majority of experts in that field that there are many mechanisms that influence the functioning of DNA that are notpart of the DNA. For instance, evrything from startling quantum influences on gene expression to the effect ofthe heartbeat, etc., are we known. Basically,unless we can understand the whole system of cosmological evolution, we cannot grasp the place or function of the genome within it. All of this talk of using the genome is scientific hubris born of big business.

Answer 6

Absolutely not. Check out Brave new world by Aldous Huxley.
This power in the wrong hands would have a catastrophic impact on mankind. We as humans should remain as individuals.
That said i would not be surprised, that someone somewhere, had not already tried to develope such an idea.

Answer 7

Even armed with the knowledge of mapping the genome, there are billions of ways a scientifically constructed one could turn out. Having it mapped doesn't mean we will succeed at creating one. That is one of the mysteries of God. I could see maybe being done in another 75- 100 years. Not that I agree...
P.S. You would be surprise at the genes that are laying dormant.

Answer 8

Interesting. And the logical extension of a philosophy that fails to recognize humanity's limitations.

Suggest you read Hitler's Mein Kampf and then research a little to understand the philosophical underpinnings of that book and the eventual development into his final solution.

Also, look at the strategic legal plan the prosecution applied at the Nurnberg trials.

Good luck!

Finally -> please provide a workable definition of "Human" vs. "Neo-human". I bet you'd be surprised at the amount of currently existing beings fell into your "neo-human" definition and they'd probably be pretty annoyed that you thought they were less than human. A small step away from slavery...

Answer 9

No Dr. Frankenstien I would not. Gattaca was a nice movie but I wouldn't want to live there. Besides, mapping and understanding are two different things. You can diagram a program all you want, but; you don't know what the results will be until you try and use it. I glitch in what you are considring could destroy humanity altogether.

Answer 10

Too late. It already exists. We may not be beautiful, sterile, docile and compliant, but we are very definitely a special breed.
And compliant to whom? The special breed is not compliant to anyone.