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Re:Suppressing vasopressin in hamsters produces unexpected a... by Traubenfuchs on Sunday May 29, 2022 @12:01PM (#31550187)
Interesting to see how far we are still away from the full picture of life’s bioxhemistry.

Being able to use CRISPR to improve humans would be great. Wouldn‘t it be nice to be able to breed humans that are practically incapable of aggression? An era of transhumanism. It would be a better world. And quite safe, unless we‘d discover hostile aliens.

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Re:Suppressing vasopressin in hamsters produces unexpected a... by tinus_hn on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:35AM (#31558316)
What would happen is there’d be a doormat race, submitting to the natural people.
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Re:Suppressing vasopressin in hamsters produces unexpected a... by Traubenfuchs on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @05:42AM (#31567601)
The doormat race would be bred not to feel bad about being the doormat race.
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Re:Suppressing vasopressin in hamsters produces unexpected a... by tinus_hn on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @09:14AM (#31569100)
Well that’s convenient. There might be some ethical issues though.
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Re:Suppressing vasopressin in hamsters produces unexpected a... by gastroturf on Sunday May 29, 2022 @09:49PM (#31554744)
If you could simultaneously affect all an entire generation of humanity, possibly two, then I can see your point.

Otherwise, doing it in isolation will surely lead to disastrous injustice.

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