Humanity is also suffering, pain, despair, hate, agony, torture.
Human condition is indivisible from suffering. Such is life they say. For millenias humanity has not made a significant number of its individual members happy or fulffilled.
Humanity as something immutable is in its waning years. And I won't mourn for it. The posthumans are coming. Let them come faster.
Frankly, it is precisely because of the human condition that technologies like this are dangerous. What happens when a misogynist wants their daughter to have a reduced sex drive, or a fundamentalist government wants its people to be more religious. If we have this capability, it will not go well.
It doesn't go well now, at this very point in time.
>misogynist wants their daughter to have a reduced sex drive
Number of instances of female genital mutilation is absolutely insane.
>fundamentalist government wants its people to be more religious
ISIS. Saudi Arabia. Russia. Propaganda and state religion works well enough. There is no need to look far from HN to see how governments prop up religious beliefs in general populace. "In God We Trust" on US dollars and "under God" in pledge of allegiance are a few fine examples.
And frankly, human genetech and biotech modification can't be stopped, neither by laws or popular opinion. The incentives are just too great.
Human condition is indivisible from suffering. Such is life they say. For millenias humanity has not made a significant number of its individual members happy or fulffilled.
Humanity as something immutable is in its waning years. And I won't mourn for it. The posthumans are coming. Let them come faster.