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RE: Obsoleteness X - Humans and Other Living Beings
As someone in the field, I do think that this is a matter of choice. It does step over that humans playing God line, but in this case I feel like it's quite merited. If humans only relied on natural selection, then it would take a long time to get from point A to point B. Admittedly there are some who use power irresponsibly. But, when power is handed to the right hands, I feel like real progress would be made. We shouldn't be scared about moving forward.
I don't believe in such a thing as power in the right hands. I don't know about Phillipines, as we learn close to nothing in schools about the true history, but I know that when the medicine started about 60.000 homeless, beggars and the like were rounded on the streets of London and used for medical research - I doubt they survived, about 20.000 native people from Panama who were forced to dig out the Panama canal were packed in the barrels' false bottom that were shipped to London - it is one of the finance sources for construction of the Panama canal. You may say, oh, it's a long way back. Sorry, but I doubt those people in power really ever change - for them it is money that matters, not life of humans or other living beings. I have seen a video of some US transhumanist who is willing to kill anyone who would oppose him to become God in the way he imagined. The elite and those havelots will never change. They have been this way for thousands of years, and why would they change if they have so much fun at havenots expense. And, it doesn't matter what color, race or whereabouts that elite has - they are one and the same club. I know that someone who has some impairment will gladly accept some technological improvement, but otherwise. Now, when quite some people are literate, they'll probably use marketing and education, and after some centuries of work noone will know anything about nature or natural life, if any will remain, anyway. I think natural selection ceased to exist the moment humans started waging wars, agriculture and construction.