Not sure we can edit people’s opinions on genetic level, or that we ever will.
If it becomes known that “some people have an opinion X, because they were genetically engineered so”, people will use this to dismiss all expressions of X (even the ones coming from non-engineered people).
And if you could actually make people 3% smarter, many people would want that. Keeping it exclusively for the genetic naturists would be politically unacceptable. And if the politicians are strong enough to decides this on their own, next time there is a change in government, the same thing would be used to create smart proponents of [insert a political idea you hate].
They would be smarter at birth. Either you gene-edit your kids or you pass that up. Yes, some people would do it; and yes, you’d get genius proliferation. But so long as you’ve got enough hide-bound naturists, fully committed, you would always have some eco-warriors around.
There’s no such thing as a million fully committed naturists, and that’s why the planet is cooking and the endangered list keeps growing.
Not sure we can edit people’s opinions on genetic level, or that we ever will.
If it becomes known that “some people have an opinion X, because they were genetically engineered so”, people will use this to dismiss all expressions of X (even the ones coming from non-engineered people).
And if you could actually make people 3% smarter, many people would want that. Keeping it exclusively for the genetic naturists would be politically unacceptable. And if the politicians are strong enough to decides this on their own, next time there is a change in government, the same thing would be used to create smart proponents of [insert a political idea you hate].
They would be smarter at birth. Either you gene-edit your kids or you pass that up. Yes, some people would do it; and yes, you’d get genius proliferation. But so long as you’ve got enough hide-bound naturists, fully committed, you would always have some eco-warriors around.
There’s no such thing as a million fully committed naturists, and that’s why the planet is cooking and the endangered list keeps growing.