Slippery Slope
We know from Uncle Ted’s manifesto paper that once bio-enginering children starts, it will quickly become compulsery.
This is because even if modifing your children during development is optional, if the modificaitons can set your children up for a better life, they no longer become optional.
You can think of it like this theoretical:
Scenerio: Edutcation your kids is optional
Person 1: Doesn’t educate kids
Person 2: Educates kids
Person 1’s kids: blue collar, making low income, low1 quality of life
Person 2’s kids: white color, high income, high1 quality of life
So yes educating your kids is “optional”, but any caring parent would educate them.
We can see this phenomonion appear with things like phones and cars. Starts off optional, perhaps something for the “upper class” or a cool gadget. Use is found - see: you can make more money - becomes effecrtly manidory via cultural norms.
Short list of non compulsery items
- Phones
- Women in the workforce
- Cars
- Education
- (soon?) genetically modifing offspring?
Footnotes
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How are we going to meausre quality of life (QOL)? If we use the common perception of QOL more or less more money equals more happy. Obviously this isn’t directly true as Jon Bellion puts it. ↩ ↩2