• azuth@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    It’s fiction.

    You can find actual discrimination based on genetics or wealth or class into the present and past of the real world.

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      10 hours ago

      You entirely missed the point of the movie if you think it’s only about genetic discrimination. It’s about creating a permanent underclass of people who weren’t wealthy enough to have had their parents make them genetically perfect. Exactly like what will happen once the rich have the ability to make themselves into the ‘ubermensch’ that they’ve been telling themselves they are for centuries.

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        6 hours ago

        Well it’s science fiction. Being ‘genetically perfect’ (rofl) will impart less of an advantage than actually existing, mundane factors such as wealth and which country you were born in. Hell, the biggest advantage they could get is making sure their children is of the ‘right’ color.

        I do not even think the biggest assholes like say Musk would genetically modify their children. He already thinks he is perfect.

        I can also think of a few factors that would disadvantage poor people more than lack of eugenics.

        Lack of healthcare. Climate change leading to people having to abandon their homeland and also exacerbating another factor. Bad nutrition. Bad education in combination with disinformation by wealth controlled media.

        Genetic modification is not really a problem. It could also help some people if we fix our politics and make sure people get access to healthcare based on needs rather than means.

        Seriously, fiction is not necessarily a good guide for politics.