Well in Gattaca there wasn't a genetically created "underclass"... it was a genetically superior "upper class" which was created, not specifically for that purpose, but rather because our technology had allowed us to pretty much rid our children of disease and defects before they were born.Dreamer wrote:Well, I have mixed feelings about genetic alteration for transhumanist purposes. ON one hand, it would be awesome and probably the only possible way of creating true lycanthropy. ON the other, we might end up with a situation like in Gattaca, so governmental measures would be needted to keep an undrclass from being created.
That's the problem... regardless of laws to prevent genetically engineering a labor class....if we start "optimizing" our children, that process will undoubtedly cost money. And where there's things that cost money, there's people who can't afford it....and where there's a garantee that a person will be healthy, versus the unknown of the regular human being, insurance companies do their magic and screw us over....
there ya go.