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Whats an unethical or dangerous experiment that you would like to see performed or perform (if it werent for the ethics/danger) (self.asklemmy)

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For me "How long could I get away with driving like an ABSOLUTE ASSHOLE all the time before I lost my licence or had an accident." Speed limits, red lights, stop signs... forget them all. Every day I have to drive sensibly and obey the law because without my licence I dont have a job, and every day I see at least one person driving like an absolute moron and I wonder...

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[–] flop_leash_973 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Eugenics taken to their logical conclusion.

As the parent of a child on the spectrum that is very aware of what such practices would mean for him, I would never agree with it in real life. But I do have a fascination with what we could do if we just said the hell with ethics and started trying to breed "perfect" people.

[–] Landless2029 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The movie gattaca does this well. No murder or cleansing. But you can have a natural birth or IVF with the Impurities stripped out. "The best of you."

"Dirty" people were limited to shit like janitors and all high paying jobs would sneak a test in to filter out anyone "un-pure"

[–] flop_leash_973 3 points 3 months ago

Nice, thanks for the movie recommendation. Gonna have to check that one out.

[–] Lemminary 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Like, ok, let's try to breed the perfect person--fine. But do we have to kill everyone else? Why is genocide seemingly always on the agenda? Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Eugenics doesn't mean killing anyone, just improve the genetic qualities of humans.

You could do selective breeding, incentivized breeding (entice the right candidates with whatever) ,gene manipulations, etc..

But I understand that proponents of eugenics usually have extreme right wing views, and why you would come to that conclusion.