DEVO wrote:
Coevett wrote:
Enjoy athletics and other sports now while you can, because this might be the last generation of anything remotely 'natural' about the talent on display.
Not that I'm against gene editing and transhumanism at all, I'm passionately in favor of it, but sport is not going to survive in its current form for more than a couple of decades.
So you think it is OK to have individuals that are part human and part what-exactly? And I presume you mean more than the bacteria in our guts.
Transhumanism means simply 'going beyond human limitations'. It was coined long before all this transsexual and transrace nonsense became part of political orthodoxy.
If gene editing enabled hereditary diseases to be a thing of the past, that would be transhumanism. It wouldn't involve adding bits of snake or bits of elephant into the body.
If gene editing enabled us to raise the average IQ by a couple of points, that would be transhumanism.
We share something like 99% of our genes with chimpanzees. I think we share something like over half our genes with rats. Parts of our brains that control much of our behaviour (the limbic system) are the relic of when our genetic ancestors were closely related to the dinosaurs.
Transhumanism would enable us to become more human and less animal. It's also inevitable. Good luck on the USA competing with China when the average Chinese IQ is 170.
Of course nobody is suggesting that it should be compulsory. If people want to remain as monkeys, it's up to them.