Suppose the science of genetic engineering eventually progresses to the point that it is able to make a disease that only kills... people with blue eyes.

I of course choose this trait so as to offend only those with blue eyes but you could replace blue eyes with any genetic trait.

There are those that would choose to kill a specific race due prejudice.

Of course not long after the disease was created it would mutate and adapt to the race that created it, killing them also.

Or both groups of people could have the Appropriate disease ready to release in case the other side released it first.

In this case a third party may wish to dispose of both groups and cause an accidental release.

Each race would have hundreds of diseases ready just in case anyone of a number of opponents threatened them.

Is it good that genetic research is allowed?
Or maby we should make it go as slow as possible.

Duane

• Scientists are not evil. - wandaqueen - December 17, 2004 - 04:30 UTC
  • Hrmm... - emperor_alikar - December 19, 2004 - 21:12 UTC
    • It makes one want to support the space program. - duordi - December 20, 2004 - 02:54 UTC
      • 1000 years - yanniru - December 21, 2004 - 04:38 UTC
        • From when? - duordi - December 25, 2004 - 00:29 UTC
        • From Armageddon, Now - yanniru - December 25, 2004 - 20:42 UTC
      • Hand writing on the wall!! - jnansaha - December 25, 2004 - 04:43 UTC
        • Yes, Man is also selfish. - duordi - January 4, 2005 - 17:46 UTC
          • I did not think earth only inhabitable but opposite - jnansaha - January 9, 2005 - 00:38 UTC
            • Phillip Morrison made the same calculations - wandaqueen - January 12, 2005 - 02:21 UTC
              • More technical a soceity gets more dangerous it becomes - jnansaha - January 15, 2005 - 04:33 UTC
                • The broken record theory - duordi - January 29, 2005 - 17:20 UTC
                • Seems we have been close to extinction recently - wandaqueen - January 30, 2005 - 01:13 UTC
    • God has been genetically engineering for eons - yanniru - December 20, 2004 - 18:55 UTC
• Biblically speaking, humanity is given the green light - harvey1 - December 17, 2004 - 13:39 UTC
  • Beastiality is not encouraged. - duordi - December 20, 2004 - 03:50 UTC
    • Read carefully - harvey1 - December 21, 2004 - 18:18 UTC
• viruses - bazukaz - December 24, 2004 - 23:57 UTC
  • We can - wandaqueen - December 30, 2004 - 15:13 UTC
• .... only outlaws will genetically engineer! - hal333 - April 22, 2005 - 10:29 UTC