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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77722247 Turkey 06/21/2021 09:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At this moment it certainly does appear we will be heading down that path sooner than most would ever imagine. I agree with your evaluation and readily believe it is our natural progression to do so. Like it or not cybernetics along with human-animal chimerism is our future. |
SallyValentine
(OP) User ID: 79601558 United States 06/22/2021 01:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At this moment it certainly does appear we will be heading down that path sooner than most would ever imagine. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77722247 I agree with your evaluation and readily believe it is our natural progression to do so. Like it or not cybernetics along with human-animal chimerism is our future. ewww, i hadn't even considered the human-animal thing, but sure enough they're already doing that, too. just heard about "sweet tooth" on netflix yesterday, predictive programming i guess. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 56025667 United States 06/22/2021 01:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At this moment it certainly does appear we will be heading down that path sooner than most would ever imagine. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77722247 I agree with your evaluation and readily believe it is our natural progression to do so. Like it or not cybernetics along with human-animal chimerism is our future. It happened in Noah's day too btw. Nothing new under sun. |
Woogy
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79633373 New Zealand 06/22/2021 01:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | to me it seems horrible, but am i looking at it wrong? Quoting: SallyValentine it doesn't seem natural, but is it in fact just the natural progression of humans to try to improve the quality of life in the same way hearing aids and eyeglasses were progressive? or is it all just bad bad bad? is there ANY possiblity that it's good? [link to www.xprize.org (secure)] Why should someone feel they are cursed for life because their genitals are small? Why not allow augmentation for all? If we are going to live in a virtuous PC world no one can feel inadequate right? |
Woogy
User ID: 79091618 United States 06/22/2021 01:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | to me it seems horrible, but am i looking at it wrong? Quoting: SallyValentine it doesn't seem natural, but is it in fact just the natural progression of humans to try to improve the quality of life in the same way hearing aids and eyeglasses were progressive? or is it all just bad bad bad? is there ANY possiblity that it's good? [link to www.xprize.org (secure)] Why should someone feel they are cursed for life because their genitals are small? Why not allow augmentation for all? If we are going to live in a virtuous PC world no one can feel inadequate right? Point missed...by a long shot. You know..you never know..you know? |
SallyValentine
(OP) User ID: 79601558 United States 06/22/2021 02:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At this moment it certainly does appear we will be heading down that path sooner than most would ever imagine. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77722247 I agree with your evaluation and readily believe it is our natural progression to do so. Like it or not cybernetics along with human-animal chimerism is our future. It happened in Noah's day too btw. Nothing new under sun. ah, yes. and we fall again. cycle of life i guess. |
veemee
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77483648 Australia 06/22/2021 05:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At this moment it certainly does appear we will be heading down that path sooner than most would ever imagine. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77722247 I agree with your evaluation and readily believe it is our natural progression to do so. Like it or not cybernetics along with human-animal chimerism is our future. It happened in Noah's day too btw. Nothing new under sun. People keep saying this. Where does the Bible say anything about gene splicing? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 79096761 United States 06/22/2021 05:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hitler was trying this with the old fashion way with his attempt to cull the genetically damaged and dumber people from being able to procreate. Farmers and Ranchers have done this for centuries to try to improve the animals that they are raising. What is new is the blending of ARTIFICIAL human created technology INTO the human body. And yes, it IS going to happen since governments and some people will ALWAYS WANT some sort of augmentation of the human body for one reason or another. Governments are going to lead the way so that they can have better /higher quality Cannon Fodder material for their Endless Wars - ie: create more efficient Killers and Humanoid Killing Machines. If the technology had existed in the 1930's to do this Hitler in particular would have been out there working as hard as he could in creating more efficient humanoid killing machines for his upcoming Wars of Conquest. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 56019491 United States 06/22/2021 05:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At this moment it certainly does appear we will be heading down that path sooner than most would ever imagine. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77722247 I agree with your evaluation and readily believe it is our natural progression to do so. Like it or not cybernetics along with human-animal chimerism is our future. It happened in Noah's day too btw. Nothing new under sun. People keep saying this. Where does the Bible say anything about gene splicing? Here you go Pine Gapper. "...And the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals." (Book of Jasher 4:18) "And they began to sin against birds, and beasts and reptiles, and fish" (Book of Enoch 7:5) "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." (Book of Genesis 6:9) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77483648 Australia 06/26/2021 12:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At this moment it certainly does appear we will be heading down that path sooner than most would ever imagine. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77722247 I agree with your evaluation and readily believe it is our natural progression to do so. Like it or not cybernetics along with human-animal chimerism is our future. It happened in Noah's day too btw. Nothing new under sun. People keep saying this. Where does the Bible say anything about gene splicing? Here you go Pine Gapper. "...And the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals." (Book of Jasher 4:18) "And they began to sin against birds, and beasts and reptiles, and fish" (Book of Enoch 7:5) "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." (Book of Genesis 6:9) First, jasher and Enoch aren't even In the Bible. Second, those verses don't say anything about gene splicing. There's no reason to think the ancient yoooooooos even knew what DNA was. |
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Reebl
User ID: 80124961 United States 06/26/2021 12:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At this moment it certainly does appear we will be heading down that path sooner than most would ever imagine. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77722247 I agree with your evaluation and readily believe it is our natural progression to do so. Like it or not cybernetics along with human-animal chimerism is our future. It happened in Noah's day too btw. Nothing new under sun. We all know how that turned out, same with the Tower of Babel. Every time 'Humanity' gets to this point of Godlike power's to change the natural creation into Man's Build it Better than God mentality, we get thrown back into the stone age. Will this time be any different? Like you said, "Nothing new under the sun." Last Edited by Reebl on 06/26/2021 12:55 AM There is no fortune to be gained by a cure, there is however a great deal of profit to be made from treatments. ~Mark Twain If you want to live forever, live a life worth remembering. ~Bruce Lee You will find something in everything if you are looking everywhere for a thing. ~Reebl |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 55838052 United Kingdom 06/26/2021 12:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We change based upon what we do. If an augmentation does it for us our ability in what it does diminishes. We diminish our legs by using cars, our environmental resistance through clothes, our strength and our skill through machines. If you say no to an new type of augmentation you should also consider whether the augmentations you currently use should be ditched too. |
Reebl
User ID: 80124961 United States 06/26/2021 01:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We change based upon what we do. If an augmentation does it for us our ability in what it does diminishes. We diminish our legs by using cars, our environmental resistance through clothes, our strength and our skill through machines. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 55838052 If you say no to an new type of augmentation you should also consider whether the augmentations you currently use should be ditched too. You are confusing irreversible augmentation with mere convenience. Yes, man made shoes out of animal skins to run faster and catch better game. Man created automobiles so that he could go farther in less time. Your argument is weak...I can remove my shoes and walk barefoot if I desire. I can get out of my car and walk if I choose to. Once melded with technology, Man and Machine will be inseparably connected...there will be no going back, it won't be just like taking your shoes off. Last Edited by Reebl on 06/26/2021 01:32 AM There is no fortune to be gained by a cure, there is however a great deal of profit to be made from treatments. ~Mark Twain If you want to live forever, live a life worth remembering. ~Bruce Lee You will find something in everything if you are looking everywhere for a thing. ~Reebl |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 55838052 United Kingdom 06/26/2021 01:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We change based upon what we do. If an augmentation does it for us our ability in what it does diminishes. We diminish our legs by using cars, our environmental resistance through clothes, our strength and our skill through machines. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 55838052 If you say no to an new type of augmentation you should also consider whether the augmentations you currently use should be ditched too. You are confusing irreversible augmentation with mere convenience. Yes, man made shoes out of animal skins to run faster and catch better game. Man created automobiles so that he could go farther in less time. Your argument is weak...I can remove my shoes and walk barefoot if I desire. I can get out of my car and walk if I choose to. Once melded with technology, Man and Machine will be inseparably connected...there will be no going back, it won't be just like taking your shoes off. Nope. You will see shelves of products that you can self-inject: big boobs, more muscle, glow in the dark, new skin tone, grow a tail and much much more...All reversible and all interchangeable. CRISPR allows for direct manipulation of you forward, backward. Store your original DNA before tampering. |