What will happen when the wealthy have access to genetic enhancements but not the poor?
W: The function of genetics should be somehow to try to reverse bad truths. I think we need to develop a political philosophy about this, to establish rules. One is that some people fail for reasons out of their control…. What function of you is really caused by having a bad throw of the genetic dice? Do you worry that through genetic engineering we may create a new subspecies of human who is stronger, smarter, and healthier, and that this new species will end up surviving while the current Homo sapiens dies out? Something like the situation with the Neanderthals and our ancestors, the Cro-Magnons? W: No, I don’t think so. It depends on how we approach it. I think some people may have to be helped. Whether it’s getting the genes for mental illness out of their family, however you do it. You could add a gene that would make you resistant to HIV. Wouldn’t that be a rather nice thing? But I’m not in favor of a “sterilizing the lower classes” kind of argument. Let me jump to the next ste
