Transhumanism will start small with slight improvements to help athletes, people with special needs, etc.; but like most things, it will age. Once the wonder is lost, scientists will have to keep doing more and more to keep people interested. Eventually, people will be put together in laboratories. Parents will be able to go to the doctor and decide which genes they want their child to have. What will happen when humans start playing God? The world will have many problems. Who will decide when it will stop? Who will decide which humans are good enough to live? At what point will people wake up and realize what they've done? Ronald Bailey is a science correspondent for Reason magazine and the author of “Transhumanism: The Most Dangerous Idea? Because striving to be more than human is human.” In his essay, Bailey states, “Human liberation from our biological constraints began when an ancestor first sharpened a stick… followed by fire, the wheel, the domestication of animals… transplants, and contraception.” (CITE) This argument would make sense if Bailey was talking about how humans have altered the world around them to create better living conditions, but he isn't. Bailey is trying to use this evidence to support the alteration of humans. Altering the world you live in is very different from altering the people who live in the world. Metahumans will obviously be superior
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