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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 3588637" data-attributes="member: 40166">I find Transhuman Space much more likely. Your version reminds me of Serenity; the lack of trust that they'll get it right, and the lack of trust that we really want to be a part of the Alliance at all. You propose that the government should genetically modify everyone's children to be friendly and cooperative around here, I suspect many people would start reaching for their shotguns. I can believe a lot of people genetically modifying their children for what they want, and in most cases getting rid of head cases, like in TS, but not the government forcing this.TS does believe that in most cases, mental illness can be prevented by genetic modification; most templates have Taboo Traits: Mental Illness on them. (Frankly, I believe that's optimistic. Very few mental illnesses are completely genetic; a schizophrenic twin is only 50% likely to be schizophrenic, and schizophrenia is blatant malfunction of the brain, unlike most mental illness.) But Adolf Hitler was a charismatic nationalist racist, and none of those have simple genetic causes, and do you really want to delete charisma? Too much against violent offenders, and you've got a passive population unable to resist force. Good for the government, until their enemies hit them with specially breed violent offenders.</blockquote>