Designer Eugenics: The Nearsighted God

Victor Glass
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Victor Glass: Rutgers Business School

Chapter 11 in Humanizing the Digital Economy, 2023, pp 231-238 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A brief history of genetic engineering shows how it has evolved. Selective breeding is giving way to genetic engineering. This new scientific approach treats genes as systems that can be manipulated in ways that threaten the integrity and sanctity of human life, and core ideological values become at risk because they lose definition. Genetic engineering threatens humanity with the specter of faux species, faux landscapes, and faux evolution. Already humanity is confronting new forms of discrimination based on using genetic databases to identify physical and mental limitations. In the long term, a people divide may occur between those who are genetically engineered and those who have not been.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-37507-1_11

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