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I think this a dangerous kind of thinking, because there's no practical execution of it. Either we'd have to regulate when people are allowed to have sex, or we'd have to take out preemptive action. Are we gonna castrate people when they look for help with addiction? That'll just make people not look for help. Or will we abort the kids if someone who doesn't fulfill the requirements gets pregnant? Even if that person does have a history of violence, they're still a person, and a forceful abortion of a wanted child is bond to fuck with someone. Finally, even if I agree that people that believe homosexuality are inherently wrong are completely unfit to be parents, I don't think we should withdraw basic human rights from anyone. We should fight the system, create better educations and representation in media so that the following generation doesn't grow up to be as narrow-minded as the previous one, but we shouldn't attempt to take away rights from then, 'cause then we'd be just as bad. Yes, I did not mean to say that people that doesn't have the minimum founding for a future of their child shouldn't have any kids – even wealth is, after all, something very relative, and no one should be deprived of the right to get them – what I mean is that there's a significant pressure on most young people to have children, regardless of financial situation or a person's will. And that's something incredibly dangerous in today's society, because it's a lot more dangerous for a kid to not have the love and attention they require than to not have the money.

the typos of my post above... well, people will probably just tl;dr it anyway Ooh, I read it as the circumstances of being a parent today (positively as a fact of life today), and how I would like to change about those circumstances politically (normatively, as you think it ought to be), but I had a feeling I was off, since I can't imagine many here possess the full scope of the parental experience. Thank you. I don't know what to say. Kids are great, but as sad as it sounds to say, I've put more thought behind genetic customization than children. As an active choice even; it's very hard for me to think about getting children without immediately connecting it to getting a life partner, a stable job and so on, all which I feel depressingly far away from. Especially if homegal doesn't want kids, which I don't think she does, so I might need to find someone else for that. And I said in the other thread, the prospect of becoming a parent is terrifying. I'm not a stable person, and having children... I don't doubt that when I get a child, I will love it unconditionally, but I'm scared that it won't be enough, and that I'm sooner or later will regret tying myself down and then proceed to take it out on the kid. There's also a whole lot more pressure to get children than it should be. C'mon, aren't we overpopulated enough?

'morning Viri Could you clarify that question, please?

before I saw that your introduction was delayed a month, I was like... 90 posts in less than two days jesus man chill. and i feel ya @ language. not that we need more people making puns here, i can only take so many variations of "magnezone", but you know. also where in germany do you live, to have "great bicycle lanes"? i miss that shit, here's it's like they have a point system for running over tourists, "50 points for the guy in the ugly jacket". ♥lich willkommen!

okay this is way more than 1-2 hours later, but lets bury ourselves deep into this shithole There's a lot of talk in this area about drawing lines – diseases are ok, but don't fuck with appearance being the most common one, but that's pretty easy to say but in theory less likely to happen. As a lowest point above zero, don't play god, don't fuck with nature, yadda yadda, we have parents with a high risk of passing down inheritable diseases. Say there's a 75% chance their kid is gonna have a severe disease of some kind. I mean they could adopt, but no, they want their own for some reason - afraid they won't be able to connect as well with an adopted child, maybe. So they wanna pick out an egg with none of that bullshit attached. Or they know that they will only pass down the disease to girls, so they want a boy so he won't have to deal with it. But if we let them pick eggs, we should let normal couples pick out healthy spawns, 'cause where to draw the line? Older couples have a highly increased risk of birthing children with some kind of deficiency, and otherwise we have to set out some kind of percentage – sorry, only 15% chance your kid will have a disability, you don't get to pick, go home – which leads us to some fucked-up system there best way to birth healthy kids is to carry the genes for a disease yourself, and where parents around 35-40 wait extra long with having children, because two more years means they can guarantee a healthy one. Which brings up the next line, increased healthiness. Science isn't quite there yet, but theoretically – instead of just picking the best egg out of ten, you pick the best egg, and then you make it even better. You reduce aging, take away addictive personality traits, give them low blood pressure, fast metabolism and reduce the rate of hormone-provoked depression. And here's where the class issues really start – obviously, a treatment like this will cost money, so we will get a society where wealthy parents give you an even bigger advantage in life. We're also getting into a "building a army" kind of thinking. I'm not getting into full-on cyborgs or even further mods, like increased brain connections here, so the final step is custom appearance. Here's where a lot of people balk; because it's remarkable similar to what a certain man with a terrible taste in facial hair wanted – breeding, blonde, blue-eyed children with triangle waists and legs like Naomi Smalls. The thing is, sorry, you can't draw a line here, the ship has sailed and you have to stand on the harbor and watch diversity disappear on the horizon. Purely scientifically, hair color, eye color, that stuff is easy. If you're going to dig into a person's DNA and fix their future sleeping habits, checking however they'll inherit their mothers drenched rat esthetics isn't gonna be a problem, we can already do that. So if we wanna stop people from checking that stuff, we need to outlaw it, and we can't. Sure, maybe it'd work in the US and Europe, but that just means people will go to Thailand and do it, and trust me, Thailand wouldn't definitely not outlaw it, their economy relies on tourism, and a lot of that tourism comes from people that goes there to do plastic surgery much cheaper than elsewhere – this isn't a huge step away and their government is fucking insane anyway. And even if we don't change anything about the eggs, and just pick one, once this becomes a bigger capital market, there will be a competition between companies, how much they can tell you about your future baby will be a selling point for the companies. Of course appearance will be included. My stance on the whole thing thou, is a big fat "don't worry about it". We're still decades away from this becoming common practice, and once it does become common, sorry to say, but first of all, plastic surgery will most likely be cheaper and more readily available for anyone middle class and up anyway, some gives their kid a big nose or not, it won't matter. We do need to fight unrealistic beauty standards, but not by banning scientific process. As for skin and hair color – that follows trends. I'm not trying to argue against racism, racism still very much exists, and there will probably be black couples that want a kid with lighter skin to give that child an easier future, but I really really doubt that anyone will start actively mass-breeding an aryan race through science labs, I mean, those kids would still need parents among about a hundred other issues. The class question is more important, but I don't think we shouldn't try to increase healthiness because some can't afford it – I mean, should we stop making prosthetic limbs because they're expensive as fuck? We might even actively need to make humanity healthier through scientific means, if we keep going as we are... No, I think the real question is a moral one. We're playing god here, speeding up evolution. No one knows what drawbacks decreasing aging genes will have in a hundred years, because we can't wait that long to try it. Like, even I that wanna give my potential future son or daughter as many he or she can possibly wouldn't want to fuck with their appearance, and I don't even know why – I know that there's a lot of doors opening to people with a conventionally attractive face, but it doesn't feel right so I don't know. And, I was on about this a bit in the Ask the next person a question thread too, but if Viri brings up the same topics he'll have to deal with the same answers, again it directs attention to traits which I frankly find overrated. I have no doubt that children with be called "better" if their parents have thrown out a fucking buckload of sweet cash to make them so. "Better", as if a persons value is based on physical appearance, intelligence or whatnot. I don't think science will find a way to make people more optimistic, unique, hard-working or blithesome. And to be honest, I don't even think they're trying.

i get nervous when i don't see new users that i like outside their introduction threads. i can show you the world, shining, shimmering, splendid, tell me, princess, now when did you last let your heart decide? cat-thor. i'm surprised i haven't seen demands that this particular spectacularity shows up in the mcu. I think I'm probably way more behind than you on cq, it's one of those things that showed up on tumblr and i speedread all there was and then forgot about it until i saw your icon, haha. the colors are really lovely thou i thought wolverine's hairy ass died? i mean i should know better than to think he'd stay dead, but wasn't it pretty recent, so that disney could take a hot shit all over the x-men franchise? maybe the rumors are true that they'll merge the movie universes... but i hope they won't ms marvel could kick my ass and i'd say "thank you". i'm super behind on her too 'cause i have this one friend with all the comics and i haven't visited her for a while, but her pile will be the first i dig into after the obligatory "hey nice to see you im here for your library" and tea. bruno can go play in traffic thou overall, marvels diversifying has been pretty great; i was skeptical at first 'cause, c'mon losers make new characters instead, and also because new thor is fucking joke from what i've heard, but kamala and miles are mad sweet edit: viri you're something else

i was gonna write something among the lines of "feed us the bread of your flesh, and let us drink the wine of your blood", but instead of sounding Christian it just sounded like a gay vampire, by which i mean no offence to gay vampires, it just wasn't what i was going for im considering signing up for pokénation... the only problem is, i'm fucking awful at competitive anything, pokémon more than most so i wish it wasn't in teams - i feel like im gonna drag my nation down if i compete. thoughts anyone? and this isn't a confidence issue, this is a rare display of self-awareness from my enormous ego, enjoy it while you can my fellow ghost-type master race is next

yeah I was bummed out that i seems to have slept through most of your 30 minutes of Reborn today i did not know that, if you've mentioned it before it must have flown over my head. do you also work? i've heard you mention working and manage to post 600 posts a month? 'cause wow. that's some crazy shit viri im try going to uni this fall, i think. lets see how fast i drop out of that... yeah spine come bask us in your glorious presence, and feed us your wisdom

Oh, I see. thanks for replying. also, 20 days? don't you have a longer holiday than that? i remember that your winter holidays are quite long, but less than 20 days between terms seems very harsh. i'm gonna guess spine thou if viri's going to sleep.

viri, if i can ask this before you go, how comes you seem way more busy after your so-called "hiatus"? when do we get art and commissions? actually, how did the exams go?

i'll start spreading my neurofecal matter all over it in 1-2 hours, when I have enough time to make it count. good to see you online, viri

... does that work? i mean, the system itself, not necessarily for you an individual – people actually study instead of going "... tomorrow". or is it just because they don't wanna put more on you during this time? i compel you to answer me, spine

i am doing other things, i'm rendering – it's like, in 3d it takes a lot of time for the computer to calculate light and reflections and stuff for the final image, like below (not my work, found on Google), so I'm essentially changing stuff like light brightness, depth of field and textures, pressing "render", waiting 15 minutes, change it back, change something else, repeat. and i'm playing pokémon x which reborn apparently has ruined for me now, thanks reborn. there are probably things i should be doing as well, like uni applications, book a table at some restaurant and calling my jobs to so i can work next week, but the 3d programs + chrome makes me not wanna open more programs since they're already eating all my ram, and i dislike talking on the phone so i'm gonna pull that off until last minute i know near nothing about you spine, but you're in the uk, so you should be in school, no?

on one hand im happy you keep guessing me, on the other it says a depressing lot about how im spending today spineapple

What does this Ame Arcade thing come from, Micky?

... i meant to say diss the trend, not thread, just noticed I consider getting out of bed the highlight of productivity. like, work i'm kinda fine with doing, making food, no hay problema, but getting up? that shit is hard spinecone

Not really, but should we do it anyway? hells fucking yeah I mean, what are the chances that they'll exist on the same scale as us anyway? they could be as big as our planet, every single one of them. they could also exist on what we'd consider a microscopic level. But, if they'd would be roughly human-sized and near humanoid – think aliens in media overall – and you found one with a lovely personality, even if you can't communicate with words – would you consider a relationship?

Im just gonna diss the thread now, shred it on the floor like a wet bathrobe. sluusb what are you fine outstanding citizens up to today?

i take a weird sort of pride in being the of douche with the acoustic guitar at parties, so i guess i'd wanna improve that talent beyond wonderwall the cure what do you believe will happen after you die?

Us? Micky? it's probably some roundabout way to ask for dick pics. also im out of pronouns

We? Micky also i have no idea why viri keeps saying she but it's w/e

Who? Micky?

You? TRHStatement?

oh that's easy. i lost a sister in the 2004 tsunami. she might have died in it anyway, but she was snorkeling so she was like... double-screwed. my homegal was also in thailand during that time, she's thai, but luckily far away from the tsunami, and i wasn't old enough to fully gasp that people dies anyway, so I wasn't too worried. anyway there was a guy that was like 100% sure this would happen, but no one listened to him. you probs know where im going with this great choices for inspirations too, i think if you were offered a place on a space shuttle to mars, as one of the first persons to ever go there and thus write history, but never to return to earth, would you take it?

They? Micky