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I see what you mean about

Submitted by Rachel Tashjian on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 11:23pm.
I see what you mean about genetically altering people to make them better at certain tasks. I think one issue that most people have is assuming that excelling in your culture's values makes you superior. This just makes you fit within your culture, not a superior person. For example, if someone were genetically altered to excel at predicting the stock market, they might do quite well in our culture. But let's say our country, for some reason, got rid of the stock market. This person is then in no way superior.

So I don't think it's possible for someone to be superior, and even if people could be genetically altered, I think that science should be reserved for weeding out fatal diseases and similar issues, rather than "tallness" or "being awesome at soccer." 

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