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#1128 Chris Williamson On Understanding Human Nature & Modern Wisdom

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The Ethics of Genetics - I'm Just Looking Back

When people discuss eugenics in general, but also more specifically certain types of genetic traits, there is a moral argument. There's an ethics argument that gets made that immediately is like that's off limits. When you look at genetics, today, it's like on the fringe, and we're just now starting to understand some of this stuff. 100 years, 200 years from now, are they going to look back at us and be like, these idiots knew certain traits or certain diseases, certain propensities, and they did nothing about it?

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