Genetic selection was announced as a
helpful solution to human suffering by Darwin and others, just before
Hitler destroyed the whole idea and made it synonymous with
inhumanity. This was very unfortunate for a most humane project.
Cattell said that human history seems
to alternate between the extremes of sentimental indulgence and
ruthless cruelty, rather that to be foresighted enough to consider
genetic selection to avoid the great suffering from starvation and
diseases, as well as improvements.
Are we afraid to face the truth about
human nature or is it simple that deception rules? Either way we pay
for the lies we live by.
Democratic societies can decide where
they want to go genetically, as they already do with education. But
I say that future evolution is the concern of religion, no matter
what political system rules. Politics and culture do influence
religion and vice versa, so political concerns are important, but I
wouldn't hitch religion to any time and place, religion belongs to
both the far past and the distant future, all the way to the
evolution of life to Godhood.
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