User: Daeven

Yet another rock to play with.

On: Frankenstein Time

Since the discovery of a rock as a useful tool, humanity has wrestled with the fact that science and technology are essentially amoral. It is neither good nor bad. While the rock proved to be wonderful as a tool, it is also a weapon. The same dichotomy proved true with the pointy stick, fire and now genetics. We, as a people a choice: to either tremble in our caves while our children go out and use the rock anyway, or embrace it and use this new tool for the betterment of all.
The HGP will be used for good as well as bad. This has been true since the rock. It is up to us, humanity to try to make the good outweigh the bad. It is far better to use the tool as opposed to closing our eyes and wishing it would go away. Or to start screaming that the sky is falling as John Katz has done.
I persoannly look forward to the possiblities this achievment heralds: regenerating telomeres, organ cloning, fixing immune disorders, noninvasive cancer treatments, and yes, technologically driven evolution. The potential advantages of this technology far outweigh any possible GATTACA or ubermensch fears. Daeven