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Re:The Shadow Scholar by derefr on Sunday November 14, 2010 @09:44AM (#1903291)
> Don't believe for a second that one day, everyone will be smart, uber-rational and we'll all live in some Randian, Galt-led utopia.

Not even with properly-applied eugenics (i.e. widespread pre-fertilization gene therapy)?

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Re:The Shadow Scholar by moshezadka on Friday November 19, 2010 @06:05PM (#1923195)
How will the "properly-applied" eugenics be done? I mean, currently people get other people to write their papers for a college degree -- think of how much they'd be willing to pay if it was their kids' existence on the line!

tl;dr: Eugenics won't be properly applied because pre-eugenics people will game the system.

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