We are already in a medical arms race where the rich benefit from medical care while the poor die and are maimed by preventable diseases.
Let’s say there was a known mutation that was both safe and conferred malarial resistance in humans. Should we make it available to everyone who lives in areas with endemic malaria? Half a million die each year from malaria, so should we let them choose to get the mutation?
What do you think that has to say about genetic engineering?
I agree, and I don’t think they should necessarily be ‘halted’. I am not against technology, I am against it as the only option. I am referring more specifically to our current info/digital age and the poor and even further disenfranchised.
Ah yes this is the end of the age as we transition from Pisces into the golden age of Aquarius. Of course look around you, who cannot see it? Plagues, wars, climate change, famines, financial crisis, over population, pollution. Social unrest and a decaying culture and there are other changes happening to our planet and solar system. Science will not save you.
There is nothing new under the Sun.
LOL!
Takes me back to ***The 5th Dimension Band" and their 1969 song: “The Age of Aquarius”.
You’re going to have to do better than that to impress me. Won’t be long before a robot with artificial intelligence replaces you. I’m not worth replacing.
Terry, let’s sing along! I have the album from the movie in the ‘70s. (So glad it survived Mike Warnke’s evil influences.) We also sang “Aquarius” in our elementary school choir, so I learned the words.
Ah then you have perfected the art of being useless. A book recommendation of @Kendel’s comes to mind.
Foul! The book is called “How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.” It has everything to do with usefulness, just not for someone else’s purposes. 
@Terry_Sampson is not useless. He subverts all forms of coercion through the appearance of uselessness. Which is something quite different. 
If you put it that way he sounds kinda useful. Can we keep him?
I sure hope so. Think he’ll stay?
Science has nothing to say about treatments for infectious diseases? Really?
What about the plague of smallpox that was ravaging the human population? What happened to that?
I’ve heard of literary, even poetic hyperbole.
Context is important.
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