Will we need to alter ourselves, genetically, to survive?

Question

With our lust for war, violence, greed, overpopulation, overconsumption (drugs, food, RESOURCES, etc.) we will not be able to maintain life as we now know it. We seem "hardwired" towards very dangerous habits and decisions. Could we genetically alter future people to be more passive and less self-serving? I think it's the only way we won't destroy ourselves and this planet. Discuss....

Answer 1

Sorry but if we changed everyone to be more passive and less self-serving that would mean everyone would be turned to a homosexual and then the human race would die off since nobody would be reproducing. So your possible solution would actually bring about what you are trying to solve and destroy all of the earth, except for Will and Grace re-runs.

Answer 2

Greetings. thing with genetically altered foods is that some of them have proved to be indigestible and to cross pollenate with non-genetically altered crops, this is a problem with corn. when the pollen from a genetically altered corn plant fertilizes a non-genetically altered plant the corn it produces is genetically altered. it is a mutant. and what in the world would agricultural machines that run on hydrogen have to do with genetically engineered food? Besides there not being any of course. With the safety. is it better to eat a food that may alter your genetic makeup and make all your offspring into mutants then it is to simply stop breeding so many new humans? Many of the products that have come out, like the big deal on sugar substitutes and butter substitutes that have finally been discovered to cause cancer and other disorders, have not been proven safe before being fostered onto the population as the saving grace of science. Almost all of them have proven to be false in their presumptions of what they actually do to the human body. Even if the GM foods prove to be good and not long term harmful, that will not really help humanity. we are running out of natural resources, out of safe drinking water and out of room to continue to expand our increasing populations world wide. the GM foods would at best, even if they are a howling success, be only a small postponment of the inevitable. We have a world population that doubles in size every 50 years. we have a limited amount of land suitable for growing food crops. we have a limited amount of potable drinking water that we are busily contaminating with chemicals used to grow food crops with. We are using land suitable for growing food to build houses on to house more people. is a much bigger problem then simply a quick genetic fix that tries to fool mother nature by altering the genetic code of our food plants and animals.

Answer 3

Man cannot change or alter himself, no matter how hard he
tries. Manis a corrupted, arrogant and self-willed being, who believes that the truth lies within himself.
I know that this is probably not what you and the world would want to hear, but ths IS THE ONLY TRUTH:
Only ONE can alter or change man. Only One can bring about an everlasting change, not of the outward things, but of man's heart! That is what needs to change - man needs a change of heart, a metanoia.
Because of man's sinful nature, he needs a Saviour. The nly hope for this dying world is JESUS CHRIST. No-one else, no matter how hard we try to convince ourselves of the opposite.
I have seen and witnessed how Christ alone has changed lives - from violent, despicalbe beings into lambs of peace and joy.
For when one serves hi,. one no longer desires to gratify the sinful desires of the corrupted flesh, but rather to fulfill and to embrace God's perfect will for us and ths world.
Unfortunately this world will come to an end - read the Bible for finer detail [Genesis to Revelation]

Answer 4

Genes donot need to be altered. They evolve by themselves. I just hope that we will have enough time to evolve. Else, we are the dinosaurs of the next era.

Answer 5

Well we're living in the world you've described. I see no need for genetic enhancement

Answer 6

The Japanese, The Romans, Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Napolean & the like ALL had the same thoughts and ideology and actioned on those thoughts....ALL FAILED

Answer 7

You are alive now, ain't that enough? You wanna live forever or something>