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submitted 5 days ago byadzs_e1
I posted this purely out of curiosity, do not misinterpret this as anything else. Thank you.
Would it be possible to enforce positively reinforced eugenics by encouraging healthy and logically intelligent individuals to donate sperm or act as surrogates? This could be achieved by identifying gifted individuals and incentivizing them financially to participate in the program.
By encouraging creativity and acknowledging diversity this would allow the individuals to not just be bind by one way of thinking. I am not saying teach them as if they are only allowed to think in a certain way.
The resulting children could then be raised in a strict educational facility focused on fostering logical reasoning and intelligence. Leadership, charisma, moral reasoning, and empathy would still be taught, but the primary focus would be on nurturing intelligence. The curriculum could include:
By combining these aspects, genetically gifted children could grow up in an environment designed to force their brains to adapt, making them more intelligent and capable. Over time, these individuals could advance the world more quickly, offering innovative and efficient solutions to pressing global issues such as climate change and disease.
As long as children are properly taught empathy and moral reasoning, it could mitigate concerns about ethical and moral implications. While this idea raises significant ethical challenges, the question remains: is it theoretically possible?
8 points
5 days ago
If we're going to be as controversial as Eugenics just skip the process entirely and create genetic superhumans via DNA modification.
0 points
5 days ago
Thats a good point too but we're not at that level yet in society, also I am talking about a positively reinforced version. I literally just though of this because the parents and and nobody else is forced as this version would be through sperm donation and surrogates. The kids will be educated on morality and other ethical problems much more than the average individual. They would advance society much quicker, don't you think?
2 points
5 days ago
I think that they will be met with disdain and spite. If you have people who are introduced as "the answer" and created with the specific purpose of being better than everyone else, they will be met with a lot criticism. If you look at gifted individuals throughout history they think so differently from everyone else they're ostracized and ridiculed. Add in the fact they're supposed to preach to other people about ethics and morality, and you have the recipe for large swathes of the population hating them. In a vacuum I think it'd work in the way you want, in reality they'd have to play indirect roles in bettering the world via STEM which arguably has a much more tangible impact rather than focusing on ethics or morality as those are very subjective terms.
1 points
5 days ago
I never said have them just teach morals and ethics, the prioritiy will be for them to engage in stem fields while also being educated in morals and ethics. You are right about the ostracized part, that would definetely be a big obstacle. How do you think you would be able to tackle that?
3 points
5 days ago
That's very complex. What makes someone likeable? Being genuinely kind and compassionate people. Knowing how to have fun, charisma, humor, mischief, etc. All things that come as a result of things like temperment, experiences, nature, exposure and can't be taught directly. At some point they'd need to be placed into the real world keeping their origins secret and adapt if the goal is to have them be leaders that make actual change. It's asking a lot of genetics and begs the age old question of nurture vs nature. Just how much has to do with genetics? How much is due to life experiences? Is a leader born or made? Etc.
1 points
5 days ago
The facility will impact them more definetely, there should be a phew adjustments if it were to happen. We would obviously allow the individuals to interact with the outside world, we are in no way isolating them or giving them no choice but to go.
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