>the assertion that one's genetics is an unfair advantage strikes me as absurd.
Are you saying you don't see the advantage inherent to having a much higher IQ?
Are you saying you don't see the advantage inherent to having a much higher IQ?
Personally, it would seem a bit unfair to me if I was born with a 95 IQ, in the cosmic sense at least.
The debate over fairness/unfairness seems to me like another example of the typical trap humans fall into - instead of bickering over who gets more of the pie, we should be focusing on increasing the size of that pie. If all the effort put in the discussions about meritocracy would be put towards intelligence augmentation, we'd have a world better for everyone, regardless of what gene he or she got.