Say you create a “Perfect Human” who is genius IQ, physically superior, and all around “better” than a modern human.

Scary hummm?

Now let’s look at the reality. In the 20 years it will take him to grow up, we will have perfected exoskeletons and other forms of augmentation that will eliminate his “superior physical traits”, have created BCI that will negate his “superior mental traits”, and have perfected retroactive genesplicing in adults that will negate even his “superior genes” because EVERYONE could have them.

Now, to top this off, we will have created medical technologies that will enable humans to reshape nearly every detail of their body, meaning that even our “superman” might seek to change his own “genetic code” to upgrade it to what will be possible 20 years from now.

Back in the 20-30′s such fears might have actually meant something. Today, they are a pathetic joke.

“As far back as ancient Greece, the aristocrats could always be identified by physical beauty and the commoners by their lack thereof…”

Really? What crazy history book did you learn this in? You ever heard of Death Masks? Pretty cool stuff, since they actually let us know exactly what say, the Ancient Romans actually looked like. Lets just say that being able to get the pretty girl into bed thanks to wealth and power does not make you attractive yourself. And what is true then is true today. How many lookers do we have in the US House? The US Senate? Most of these people are hideous looking, and they have millions in corporate “donation” money to spend on their appearance.

“Even now, it’s not too hard to see if someone’s had some aristocratic breeding at some point.”

Yeah, those are the kids that when they fall down, they never stop bleeding. Those pesky recessive traits and inbreeding…

“Oh, we don’t want to mess around with human genes…”

Meanwhile, in both more civilized countries and less “morally conflicted” ones, research continues on.

Chinese kids are already far smarter and work far harder than their American counterparts thanks to the steady defunding of public education. So what happens when these Chinese kids also become say, far more resistant to illness, require less sleep, and are overall ever more intellectually advanced than they are already?

Man, America is really, really, really not going to like becoming a third world nation. Why do we always feel the need to speed up the process?

To me, human enhancement can go a long way in dealing with matters that can have a negative, daily effect on many lives.

Bioengineering doesn’t create monsters; only people can create monsters. Make the actions illegal, not the technology.

How’s that for a conservative one-liner.

And I’m not classist, this is just based on observation and knowledge.