I was reading about scientists creating a synthetic embryo with only basically stem cells. I personally think this is a really bad idea.
First of all, this is going to upset or make violent many religious people of the world especially terrorists of all kinds.
But, even if you disregard religious fundamentalist terrorists in this I think it's a bad idea. Why?
Because it's the same problem as genetically modified foods that kill some people when they eat them.
It's about evolution, natural evolution.
Evolution will naturally "thin out" or make disappear completely things that don't work inncluding artificially designed things like this over time.
How it will do this is not fully understood presently by any one person.
The problem I see is the same "Terminator" problem that made everyone upset and freaked out in 1984 when Arnold Schwarzenegger played the lead in
"Terminator" in 1984. In other words people realized
that this could actually happen on the trajectory the world
was headed then and it still could happen.
The same problem (even though the problem could manifest
in much different ways could also arise by breeding
synthetic humans who have no empathy for humans like
us at all and instead see us as to be wiped out like some
humans wipe out flies as a matter of course.
If we create a human species in a synthetic way like this
we also might be creating "HUMAN EXTINCTION".
This is the real problem I see here.
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