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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 3588522" data-attributes="member: 424">I can make a case that the future as described probably isn't possible.  If you want to be a utopian society, then one needs to control or eradicate the root causes of violent and aberrant personalities.Changes to the genome of fetuses that show generic predisposition to sociopathy or pychopathy could be corrected in the womb.  No violent offenders.  No serial killers.  No psychopaths.  No mental deficiences or aberrations.  No addictive personality disorders so no substance abusers. No sexual perversions.  Etc.If a theorized future can have mankind doing genetic manipulation to make artifical sentience, then that same technology can 'optimize' people and eradicate the genetic causes of many of problems today.  There would be no more Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, etc. type of people - all the aberrant genetic markers are altered at birth.And if some slip few, after their first infraction and genetic screening, I can see enforced teatment altering personalilty and conciousness to remove the problem traits.And before someone points it out, yes - the very real possiblity of genetic alteration being used for selfish and illegal purposes is possible.  The point I am making it the worst traits of mankind have grounds in genetics and if you can fully control genetics, then you dealt with that issue.Doesn't make a interesting campaign setting but it makes a more 'likely' future than what Transhuman Space postulates - that genetic manipulation will bring all wonders to mankind but we will not deal the root causes of aberrant and dysfunctional personalty.</blockquote>

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