Human Breeding

[Revolution]

I was thinking of what a world we would live in if we started breeding human beings for desired and specialized traits. If we started this a couple thousand years ago, would we be "more evolved" humans now? What diseases would be wiped out? How intelligent would we be? How different would we look physically? Think about it, we as humans breed just about everything else from marijuana, to dogs, to corn. But we have yet to every seriously try it on our own species. A haunting thought.

[DeLuX]

That's a craaaaaaazy concept dude, I'm sober.

Bigger heads due to larger brains, naturally muscular just for survival methods, everyone would run hella fast and know more information than the encyclipedia brittanica.

I need to smoke some weed.

[the roach]

Your thinking of eugenics-

http://www.answers.com/eugenics
The study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding.

There have been many times throughout history where groups have seriously attempted eugenics.

[bigzach88]

however thanks to white trash people like my neighbors who breed like rabbits this will never happen as most intelligent and well off people have fewer kids then the less fortunate in looks and brains that is why there are more of them

[pavlakos]

there is one group of people, the 13 bloodlines of david who consider themeselves elite for this reason.

EDIT: probably the only eugenics program thats worked. and nobody knows about it.

[trixx]

most intelligent people are attracted to eachother anyway and end up making children.

[ArtemisRain]

Originally Posted by Revolution

I was thinking of what a world we would live in if we started breeding human beings for desired and specialized traits. If we started this a couple thousand years ago, would we be "more evolved" humans now? What diseases would be wiped out? How intelligent would we be? How different would we look physically? Think about it, we as humans breed just about everything else from marijuana, to dogs, to corn. But we have yet to every seriously try it on our own species. A haunting thought.

First of all we haven't tried it yet because of religion, enough said.

Secondly, would this project of artificial selection be a worldwide project or a national project? Eventually you would have a cold war of getting the genetic super human wouldn't you?

[the roach]

Originally Posted by ArtemisRain

First of all we haven't tried it yet because of religion, enough said.

Religion hasn't stopped eugenics in the past, for a long time it was quite the opposite.
Not only that, but many groups still practice Eugenics today, even while your reading this.

http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugen...arch=&matches=

"Some eugenicists regarded their field as a way of life akin to a religion. This is evident in Davenport's 1916 zealous little booklet, Eugenics as a Religion, including a 12-point creed he recited at the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. One point of the creed was, "I believe that I am the trustee of the germ plasm that I carry, that this has been passed on to me through thousands of generations before me; and that I betray the trust if...I so act as to jeopardize it, with its excellent possibilities, or, from motives of personal convenience, to unduly limit offspring."

The eugenics movement appealed to almost all segments of society, because it seemed to aim at human betterment. Many religious groups found eugenics a welcome addition to their existing charity work and social services. For example, the Congregational parish of Reverend Oscar McCulloch in Indianapolis offered a lending library, prenatal and child care, visiting nurses, and literacy classes. McCulloch believed that good marriages required church support and he became interested in the new eugenics being introduced by his friend and parishioner, David Starr Jordan. McCulloch studied the Tribe of Ishmael, a "degenerate" extended family living in Indianapolis.

Sermon contests, including a national competition sponsored by the American Eugenics Society, were a popular form of religious involvement in eugenics. Entries in these contests present scripture citations to support the compatibility of religious and eugenics principles. Until the Vatican ruled eugenics unacceptable in the mid-1920s, some Catholic priests and theologians promoted eugenics. They argued that the Church had always restricted marriage through rules such as bans on cousin marriages."

[thatcrazydude]

if we did this we would lose everything that made us who we are as individuals we would all look pretty much teh same and it would suck hairy balls