Re:Neurodiversity
by yummyfajitas on Sunday January 01, 2017 @06:59PM
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Perhaps I can chemically supplement myself to have the same powers that my African and Indian friends are born with. Why wouldn't I want my children to be born with that power?
Similarly, I'd like them to be born intelligent and naturally athletic.
Re:Neurodiversity
by duckingtest on Sunday January 01, 2017 @08:20PM
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Power to be D3 deficient? [0] Do you have some inferiority complex? It's objectively better to have white skin that can tan instead of a darker one. It's always possible to cover from the sun. Only disadvantage: in sunny climates, ~4x higher risk of skin cancer, but the absolute risk is still a minuscule ~25/100k.
"It is evident that as much as 69%-82% of the South Asian populations in India had 25(OH)D levels in plasma less than the minimum acceptable levels of 20 ng/ml"
Skin colors evolved when most people were outside for the entire day. Now the opposite is true.
[0] http://www.pjms.com.pk/issues/octdec208/article/reviewarticl...
https://pixabay.com/p-199674/?no_redirect
https://tonycavanagh.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/5005.jpg
Hardly a big difference. For genetic modification, the best solution is to increase range of tanning rather than changing the constant. It's already possible to get black skin [0] with eg. melanotan-2, so it's not that big of a change.
[0] http://imgur.com/a/I428E