>The implications of creating a super-race has dark-overtones if used for
>martial gain. But if gene-gineering were handled with the goal of
>improving our lives, an immortal, resiliant race wouldn't be so bad.
>>It has always been the goal of humanity to control pain and death. Don't
>you want to live forever?
>>Nature's reason for the cycles of life and death are simple. ...to create
>a better tomatoE. But if humanity can learn to control the evolution of
>the human body through genetics, why would death be neccessary anymore?
>>I would like to hear your opinion.
The first idea which comes to my mind is probably not so attractive...
We are more than 6 10E9 peoples on the Earth, and it seems we could be
faced soon with managing problems. Anyway, when you promise immortality,
you should also promise a severe restriction *abolition?* of reproduction.
This implies 1) that we be able to proceed to such a control, 2) that
contraception becomes 100% efficient 3)...
Xavier
draye at gena.ucl.ac.be