genetically enhanced human species
Literal eugenics. Is there really no point at which guys like this look in mirror ad go “are we the baddies?”
I don’t think there’s anything fundamentally wrong with eugenics. Screening for genetic diseases before birth is eugenics, selecting the best embryos for ivf is eugenics. Believing that people with severe genetic disabilities should be counseled before conceiving is eugenics as well.
The issue is the way it’s done and the reason for it.
Ribbit
It will do a pretty good job of it if it’s an island in the central Pacific Ocean, 300km away from its closest neighbouring country.
It’s like the joke about outrunning a bear, they just need to run faster than the rest of us. There are only 12k people on Nauru to outlast, and a few years of supplies don’t take up very much space either.
…oh, so now rich people are just openly doing comic book supervillain shit. Ok.
We’re hitting the point where people who played Bioshock and missed the lesson have money.
to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state,
It exists and it’s called Switzerland.
