I found this website and thought it was a very interesting website to say the least. The website http://www.bltc.com/index.html is for this company BLTC Research whose mission is to use technology to abolish the biological substrates of suffering. Not just in humans, but in all sentient life. They state that the blueprint for a Post-Darwinian Transition to a cruelty-free world is conceptually simple, technically feasible and morally urgent. At present, life on earth is controlled by self-replicating DNA. Selfish genes ensure that pain and malaise are endemic to the living world. For BLTC Research to create this lifelong superhealth and a cruelty-free world they state that the third-millennium bioscience allows them to:
rewrite the vertebrate genome
redesign the global ecosystem
deliver genetically pre-programmed well-being
They then go on in other pages to talk about Utopian surgery, Superhappiness, Future Opioids, and so forth. This is a world I dont think is particularly possible or ethical. Say that our technology eventually does lead us to a time where it is possible to rewrite the vertebrate genome or deliver genetically pre-programmed well-beings. First off this company is not only planning to manipulate Human DNA but all Vertebrate animals in life. So we are not only messing our lifes but those of other animals (PTA would have a field day on this one). Then there is the deliver genetically pre-programmed well-being. Has anyone seem GATTACA? I think people really have to decided sooner or later if the power to play god with technology is a responsibility they want and if they are ready for the consequences. I am a bio major and do research so I am for technology but not if it goes to this level that this company wants to take it.
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Do you know scientists now are trying to make lesbians have genetic babies. That would challenge the social structure
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