Making better humans, or rather, making less-bad ones

[MadImmortalMan]

Strauss-Khan seems like he'd be fun at parties.

[Neil]

I'll support you, Ide.

I never understood the Eugenics Wars premise.  If you can engineer superior intelligence, you can engineer superior empathy.  Maybe they decided, rightly, that it was a weakness in individual men and women.

The power of genetics wasn't well understood by the public in the 60s.  Really, it still isn't.  The word 'eugenics' was no doubt used in Khan's backstory because of the relation to Nazism.

[Ideologue]

The Nazis built roads and rockets.  We still use those.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Cher Khan knew how to party.

[CountDeMoney]

Not nearly as much as Chaka Khan.  She feels for you.

[Razgovory]

I wonder if homosexuality would be considered an undesirable element as homosexuals are on average more likely to be depressed and suffer STDs.

[Neil]

I wonder if homosexuality would be considered an undesirable element as homosexuals are on average more likely to be depressed and suffer STDs.

If it has a genetic component, then it can be selected against, or perhaps cured.  Wouldn't it be nice if the homosexuals just born were the last ones?

[CountDeMoney]

No, because the fashion and furnishings world would suffer.

[Neil]

No, because the fashion and furnishings world would suffer.

It's not like women couldn't step up.  And surely the social benefits would be worth it.

[garbon]

I wonder if homosexuality would be considered an undesirable element as homosexuals are on average more likely to be depressed and suffer STDs.

We've already had this conversation before. For both, it is hard to parse out what is intrinsic to homosexuality itself and what stems from societal pressures placed on homosexuals.

[CountDeMoney]

No, because the fashion and furnishings world would suffer.

It's not like women couldn't step up.  And surely the social benefits would be worth it.

What, and be left with doilies and "country kitchen" motifs?  Pass.

[Neil]

No, because the fashion and furnishings world would suffer.

It's not like women couldn't step up.  And surely the social benefits would be worth it.

What, and be left with doilies and "country kitchen" motifs?  Pass.

It wasn't like that before we allowed gays to function in society.  We would be fine.

[jimmy olsen]

A world of upper-class supermen would not be a great place.

When phrased like  that no one would agree, but that was not the question he asked.

[Razgovory]

I wonder if homosexuality would be considered an undesirable element as homosexuals are on average more likely to be depressed and suffer STDs.

We've already had this conversation before. For both, it is hard to parse out what is intrinsic to homosexuality itself and what stems from societal pressures placed on homosexuals.

Why the factors exist are irrelevant.  What is relevant is simply that they are undesirable factors.  Besides, much easier to do a medical procedure then to force every person to like gays better or make gays less slutty.  I had previously suggested that if it homosexuality acquired prenatally, (it's unlikely to be genetic and likely to be hormonal), and this condition could be altered in the womb, that homosexuality would all but disappear, not out of hate but simply from parents wanting children to be like them.  I imagine that within a hundred years gay rights will be irrelevant.

[Ideologue]

Most parents would probably opt for bisexuality, doubling one's chances of finding domestic splendor.