Thread:Forum:Genetic evolution vs memetic evolution (LQT!)/Gene propogation machines/reply (48)

Genetic engineering is safe? There is no possible way we can know that. One more time, I do not think you appreciate the magnitude of a genome, nor the complexities of its expression. Throw in environmental/ecological interactions, and analysis is even less tractable. Taking risky, quite possibly far-reaching, steps based on unreliable projections is foolishness, to put it politely.

Unintended consequences can be a bitch.

"Males having children is rather irrelevant" ?? Bull. Not socially, not emotionally, and in most modern societies not financially.

Sex is one urge. Procreation is another, related but different.

Are you suggesting that we, wherever "we" are, should willingly adopt the Chinese model? Are you aware of the human suffering, the opportunities for authoritarian abuse there?

Central planning and micromanagement have a bad name, and for good reason. Tell us about the farming you've done, the livestock you keep, the children you have raised... I'll save myself some typing, and say "I didn't think so" right here.