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Author Topic:   No need for grunt work? *Societal Roles*
Hangdawg13
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Message 70 of 79 (206306)
05-08-2005 11:34 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by joshua221
04-23-2005 9:06 PM


Let's look at:
Technological advances since the industrial revolution have provided mankind less need for hard work, heavy lifting, and work that mainly males would do during this time. "Grunt work" has been disappearing, as humans rely on machines and other tools to take away this sort of labor.
And instead of argue if boys are better than girls try and figger out what the heck the future generation of boys and girls will be like when we have the option of macro-evolving ourselves in one generation.

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Hangdawg13
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Message 72 of 79 (206586)
05-09-2005 6:52 PM
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05-09-2005 7:58 AM


What makes you think that this will ever be possible in the future?
From what I understand we already have the ability to alter individuals and will soon have the ability to alter the germ line.
We are already doing all sorts of things with lab animals; its only a matter of time before parents have the option of eliminating genetic diseases. ...and while they're at it they may want to make sure their kid isn't a runt... and heck they might as well make him a good athlete, handsome, extra smart, tireless, etc...
Evolution doesn't happen to individuals.
Why not? We have the power, and we will use it.

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Hangdawg13
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Message 74 of 79 (206630)
05-09-2005 11:30 PM
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05-09-2005 7:54 PM


By definition, the smallest unit that can evolve is a population.
That's the Biological Evolution definition, but there are other kinds of evolution.
If we make better people through genetic engineering, it's called "gattacarization" or some other damn thing, but it's not evolution.
Cool; I learned a new word. Did they coin that after the movie Gattica or vice versa...?
So anyway... either by gattacarization or by cybernetics I'm pretty sure whole populations of humans (and eventually robots) will evolve themselves during the next century... unless of course Iran drops an EMP over everybody, or the NWO turns on Big Brother in full force or WWIII breaks out... etc.

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Hangdawg13
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Message 76 of 79 (206657)
05-10-2005 2:49 AM
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05-10-2005 2:07 AM


Ha ha. Actually, I just pulled that word out of my...
Ha... I thought so...
I doubt we will ever have WWIII for one obvious reason: I will already have taken over the world before WW3 is remotely a possibility.
Oh okay. Well in that case, speaking of boys and girls, I only have one humble request when you be come supreme potentate... have a few hundred girls rounded up and sent to my university where the guy to girl ratio is about 5:1.

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