that was yesterday.

the way you should think about dna editing is like this:

humans will never be able to assume the role of god, because god never existed in the first place.

what the science actually says is that you're not designed at birth by a magic molecule; you evolve over time as a reaction to your experiences. as such, you do not exist as a fixed entity. you are not innate to anything. you have no objective existence outside of the context you are in, and you are constantly and forever in flux, constantly modified by events around you that you do not have any control over.

you consequently do not get to make your own choices in life - or at least not in any defined, insulated way.

so, what is this shit about genetic determinism? in fact, it's actually the christians that believe in predestinaton and "god's plan" and all that bullshit of the sort. and, the media has spun you around and confused the fuck out of you - they have relabeled religion as science, and then fed it back to you through shiny media.

you can code for trivial physical traits like eye colour. if that is important to you, whatever. but, virtually everything that science fiction has presented to you as genetic is in truth a religiously motivated fraud that science treats as almost entirely environmental.

most of the science fiction that exists today should in truth be recategorized as speculative religion.

http://theconversation.com/forget-about-designer-babies-gene-editing-wont-work-on-complex-traits-like-intelligence-51557

aug 3rd vlog, where i go to farmington hills to get a bicycle, get trapped in cougar country in the rain, bicycle back to detroit, stop at a show, stay overnight and eventually get home early in the morning.