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Playing devils advocate here; wouldn’t that be a prime example of evolutionary displacement of an inferior species with one that has a higher fitness? Those modified, superior humans would mate, obviously, and spread their gene pool faster than non-modified humans, thus replacing them. Isn’t that a good thing, overall?

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How many people do you know truly willing to endure a lifetime of inferiority and subordination for "the greater good"? Get real.

You already live in that world.

Not by choice

But that’s exactly the life you and me already live, and have come to terms with (I hope?). We’re never going to be rich and famous. So nobody had a choice to begin with.

That's not quite true. We are only rendered inferior by capital, or by athletic ability, a skill, a talent. I was responding to the prospect of something all encompassing which to me is what man-made genetic superiority suggests.

Isn’t that a bit naive? Unless you’re born rich, you’re chances of obtaining wealth are extremely slim.

I get where you’re coming from, but whether the barrier is 20 meters or infinitely high doesn’t matter in practice, because I can’t jump neither…

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