Those who have or want to have children: would you want to genetically modify them?

[Warren DeMontague]

75. "before we messed everything up" - yes, exactly.

The apocalyptic, garden of eden, fall from grace script is the same, whether the original sin is apple eating, sex, or the development of industrial civilization.

It's not "bringing religion into it", the story turns up all over the place, fundamentalist religions and cults love it, authoritarian and monochromatic political movements, too-- but they're far from the only ones who adopt it. Usually when people see the world in black and white you don't have to drill very far down to find one of them. A singular, universal source of evil or oppression, an idyllic original state... It's so prevalent in the human psyche one wonders if it is hard wired. I'm sure Joseph Campbell had some stuff to say about it.

But... I suspect we're talking past each other, here.

The Vitamin C idea is an interesting one, of course I'm not sure scurvy is a widespread problem anymore, even in developing countries. It seems other vitamin deficiencies are more of a problem, than C.

But it's an interesting idea. I was reminded of a sci-fi short story I read years ago where people had been genetically engineered to have chloroplasts in their cells, so their skin could make food from sunlight. Of course, everyone was green.