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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 9054841" data-attributes="member: 5889">Fear doesn't often make sense, that's basically the point.The fear that arose (from an entire major war mind you), was that once you make genetic engineering commonplace you will start to see people abuse it, and eventually you will get the "master race" scenario all over again. Now some of that is an absolutely rational fear, and some of it completely primal and instinctual.The other part that was actually a more interesting argument, is the notion that genetic engineering removes genetic variability from a species. Effectually once you start assuming certain traits as "good" and others as "bad", you start pruning and weeding. But the reality of nature is, survival of species is often dependent on genetic variation, because you never know what major change is around the evolutionary corner that suddenly makes that undesired trait really useful and important. So the idea that they want to prevent the genetic pruning of a species is actually a legitimate concern.Now in terms of this as an "earth problem", I could agree with that, but frankly Earth is very centric in the federation, as is vulcan. As some of the two founding members, they obviously have a LOT of clout in the government, and so Earth policies and viewpoints tend to carry through more often than not. Major parts of the federation government are literally on Earth after all.</blockquote>