What would happen to society if people start to extensively use genetic therapy?
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what is genetic therapy?
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For the kinds of gene therapy we currently have, it wouldn't make that much of a difference for society, but could have a positive effect for people affected by conditions that can be treated with it. Although as I understand it, those treatments are far from perfect and do frequently have adverse effects as well.
If we're talking the sci-fi kind of gene therapy that could stop aging, make people more intelligent etc, that would be an entirely different story. It would have massive societal ramifications and I think especially under capitalism, they wouldn't be good. It would increase inequality by massive amounts and basically turn the rich elites into their own, genetically-superior species.
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Either x-men or just less people with genetic diseases. Not sure which one though...
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For the kinds of gene therapy we currently have, it wouldn't make that much of a difference for society, but could have a positive effect for people affected by conditions that can be treated with it. Although as I understand it, those treatments are far from perfect and do frequently have adverse effects as well.
If we're talking the sci-fi kind of gene therapy that could stop aging, make people more intelligent etc, that would be an entirely different story. It would have massive societal ramifications and I think especially under capitalism, they wouldn't be good. It would increase inequality by massive amounts and basically turn the rich elites into their own, genetically-superior species.
It would increase inequality by massive amounts and basically turn the rich elites into their own, genetically-superior species
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It'd probably be fucked up like how it was depicted in Star Trek.
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I believe the movie Gattaca's premise is around this subject.
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I believe the movie Gattaca's premise is around this subject.
I came here to say exactly this.
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A lot of people are going to be hotter.
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.... Bioshock
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For the kinds of gene therapy we currently have, it wouldn't make that much of a difference for society, but could have a positive effect for people affected by conditions that can be treated with it. Although as I understand it, those treatments are far from perfect and do frequently have adverse effects as well.
If we're talking the sci-fi kind of gene therapy that could stop aging, make people more intelligent etc, that would be an entirely different story. It would have massive societal ramifications and I think especially under capitalism, they wouldn't be good. It would increase inequality by massive amounts and basically turn the rich elites into their own, genetically-superior species.
Same situation with cybernetic implants. The rich would have infinite eidetic memory and computation power built into their skull. The poor would be forced to have muscle implants if they wanted a job, or worse, much much worse.
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Same situation with cybernetic implants. The rich would have infinite eidetic memory and computation power built into their skull. The poor would be forced to have muscle implants if they wanted a job, or worse, much much worse.
I mean, Cyberpunk 2077 does have construction workers being contractually obligated to receive strength-augmenting implants that are low quality and frequently malfunction and/or drive the wearer to homicidal insanity.
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Furries. Real ones. :3
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My honest opinion is that we aren't there yet. If people use gene therapy on a large scale today (the one that actually alters the DNA inside the cell's nucleus) we're gonna end up with a large amount of genetic damage, damaged individuals and damaged offspring within a few generations.
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what is genetic therapy?
wrote last edited by [email protected]it's a broad term used to refer to any medical treatment that uses gene technology somehow.
there's mostly two variants today:
- mRNA medication. that one is temporary. it does something to you, then the effect wears off by itself within day, weeks or months. this one is new-ish (first used since around 2015) but it's getting more and more usage because it works well and has typically few side-effects.
- DNA-modifying medication. that one is permanent and possibly hereditary, i.e. it would affect your offspring too. a.f.a.i.k. it's practically not used today due to the grave and long-lasting impacts it would have on individuals and society.
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it's a broad term used to refer to any medical treatment that uses gene technology somehow.
there's mostly two variants today:
- mRNA medication. that one is temporary. it does something to you, then the effect wears off by itself within day, weeks or months. this one is new-ish (first used since around 2015) but it's getting more and more usage because it works well and has typically few side-effects.
- DNA-modifying medication. that one is permanent and possibly hereditary, i.e. it would affect your offspring too. a.f.a.i.k. it's practically not used today due to the grave and long-lasting impacts it would have on individuals and society.
so the answer to the question is "we already know, we already spent the entirety of 2021-2023 doing it".
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I mean, Cyberpunk 2077 does have construction workers being contractually obligated to receive strength-augmenting implants that are low quality and frequently malfunction and/or drive the wearer to homicidal insanity.
Just think what a company could do with a full motor control interface to their workers. The worker themselves could be asleep or in a virtual world and not have to worry about all that pesky work.
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A lot of people are going to be hotter.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I offer a rebuttal: plastic surgery exists and is a hell of a lot cheaper than genetic engineering is, and I wouldn't say people are hotter. The rich ones, 1000%. Your every day people, probably not.
not having to fiddle with eyeliner would be amazing though
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I imagine genetic traits like down syndrome or bodily mutations would be a lot less common.
Autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety too depending on what kinda healthcare this fictional society has.
if it's anything like plastic surgery, nothing will happen except maybe down syndrome and bodily mutations.if it's cheap though people are gonna go ALLL out on bodily cosmetics. Id want a spiky dick with one of those spiky balls at the end like that one dinosaurs tail.
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