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bildramer t1_iyunj6c wrote

Reply to comment by AConcernedCoder in Genetic Ethics: An Introduction by ADefiniteDescription

Is governments choosing to put children in schools not a deliberate and artificial improvement? So it's certainly possible, because it's been done.

Turns out, in the real world, nobody cares about philosophical debates, they don't wait, they go with their gut feeling or weird preconceived cultural notions about what's "improvement", and sometimes it even works out.

Also, what is a "viable belief"? Something being false is different from something being unpopular, and "unpopular" is different from "unpopular in the West".

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AConcernedCoder t1_iyyexde wrote

I swept my floors today and regularly keep cooking utensils sterilized to aide my survivability. From my perspective, it's an improvement of my living conditions, not the human race as a whole or the quality of its gene pool.

Likewise I wouldn't expect education to directly alter the genetic material of a species. How is this even controversial?

Edit: but you could, through education, attempt to alter the mating strategies of a population, which could be rooted in eugenics.

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