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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 3589115" data-attributes="member: 424">There are genome scientists working on genetic markers related to diseases.  And a smaller number working on genetic markers related to aberrant personality disorders.  So it is coming.And I am not saying I prefer that future or that future is any more likely than anyone else's best guess.The OP talked of genetically created sex slaves but since the vast majority of us don't go around raping people or spending the paycheck on hookers or spend 23 hours a day looking at porn (the majority of people are not fixated on sex) then the notion of having a sex slave indicates an abnormal or skewed view point about sex, which as been linked to aberrant personality disorders. I just find it odd that the OP wrote about the darker side of humanity using the technology to engage in hedonist behavior and aberrant behavior and my point was that it is more likely that such behavior will be controlled by the technology rather than let it facilitate such behavior.I could get into a discussion about genetics and environmental and developmental factors during fetal development but that is not productive to the discussion.   If you have the technology to manipulate the human genome, you also have the technology to correct developmental problems.  In either case, the vast majority of personality disorders and mental illness would be render moot if such technology existed.Hitler's issue was not he had 'bad charisma' nor that he was a racist.  Hitler was a psychopath. And certain elements of psychopathy personalilty is that they can be charismatic and very manipulative. History shows what one psychopath is capable of given the right variables and circumstances.  A future society is going to screen for abnormal personality like psychopathy and nip it in the bud simply because the threat of such personalities pose to society.Really?  As a doctor, I tell you your unborn child has the genetic markers for psychopathy which means he has the real potential to be danger to himself and others and that it can be corrected by a simple procedure of gene therapy and you are going to say no?Don't underestimate the power of the state to change perceptions about certain subjects.  Hitler did it and lead the German people into the disaster of history called WW2.  Leaders and governments never had a real problem in getting the populous to do thing their way.  History is so full of such examples, I will not even to begin to start.  Don't think that people rejecting government initatives is a given.  It is not.</blockquote>

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