You say that a merchant would track the movements of it's stock on premises. Imagine a society where it is literally impossible to steal something from a shop. As soon as you try to leave a shop with an item hidden under your jacket, the shop's security sensors detect it leaving and automatically charge it to the account number stored on your sub-dermal ID tag.
What natural selection? With the development of intelligence, man has found ways around it. Modern medicine among other things have basically caused natural selection to cease, and nobody has said how "immoral" and "irresponsible" this is. The inherent flaws and diseases which, in the animal kingdom, would have led to death before an animal could pass on it's genes have been rendered powerless.
People actually think of it as everyone's right to be allowed to reproduce - despite such "natural flaws" as infertility; And ways around this have been duly invented: IVF etc. There are many people who are well aware of their "inferior" genes which could potentially pass on such genetic diseases as haemophilia etc. Yet they shamelessly gamble on odds often no better than 50:50 to have children, regardless.
If this precedent were to become common practice, then natural selection might once again start applying to humans again. I believe that this is just another stage in the (un)natural evolution of humans.
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If it is virtually impossible for radioactive material to cause cancer, as you say, then what exactly did marie Curie die of?
You say that a merchant would track the movements of it's stock on premises. Imagine a society where it is literally impossible to steal something from a shop. As soon as you try to leave a shop with an item hidden under your jacket, the shop's security sensors detect it leaving and automatically charge it to the account number stored on your sub-dermal ID tag.
What natural selection? With the development of intelligence, man has found ways around it. Modern medicine among other things have basically caused natural selection to cease, and nobody has said how "immoral" and "irresponsible" this is. The inherent flaws and diseases which, in the animal kingdom, would have led to death before an animal could pass on it's genes have been rendered powerless. People actually think of it as everyone's right to be allowed to reproduce - despite such "natural flaws" as infertility; And ways around this have been duly invented: IVF etc. There are many people who are well aware of their "inferior" genes which could potentially pass on such genetic diseases as haemophilia etc. Yet they shamelessly gamble on odds often no better than 50:50 to have children, regardless. If this precedent were to become common practice, then natural selection might once again start applying to humans again. I believe that this is just another stage in the (un)natural evolution of humans.