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yawnmaster

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1. temporarily, perhaps, and not just the white race but others as well, and temporary because...

Reply to Zalatix (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 01:52 PM

Sep 2012

we are getting close to being able to manipulate human genes to the level that we can modify our phenotypical traits (eye color, skin color, height potential, susceptibility to disease, etc.).
And not just in the unborn but in many cases with adults by changing their existing genetic structure.
I don't mean screening the unborn either, I mean changing their genes as the parents (or some societal governing agency) wants.

The technology should be here within a generation...the ethics governing it, quite a bit later.

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Is Tom Hayden's dream coming true? [View all] Zalatix Sep 2012 OP

temporarily, perhaps, and not just the white race but others as well, and temporary because... yawnmaster Sep 2012 #1

So we'll all be colored according to the latest Spring fashions! randome Sep 2012 #2

But, I like my blue skin! Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #3

"the peaceful elimination of the white race"...(hint: it won't be by violence or genocide) WinkyDink Sep 2012 #4

Sometimes the redundancy is still not enough, sometimes it is. Zalatix Sep 2012 #6

At least in the US, the taboos against interracial dating and marriage are crumbling, particularly pampango Sep 2012 #5