US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
Heliospect’s services were marketed at up to $50,000 for 100 embryos, undercover footage shows
We have to ensure that people
are meeting their potential.
And exceeding it?
No one exceeds his potential.
lf he did?
lt simply means that we didn't accurately gauge his potential in the first place
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good quote OP, Gattaca is now 27 years old but it is still worth watching
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I'll admit to thinking the society depicted was actually very cool when I first watched it and got in an argument with a friend about it. Media literacy is hard when you're young okay
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The society in gattaca was very bad but from my hazy decade plus old memory of it the MC's specific circumstance was like the worst possible example of why. Wasn't he a guy with a congenital heart problem trying to get picked for a one-man mission to Jupiter?
I too am hazy about a move I haven't watched in 10+years.
Did he have a heart problem or did his genes make it more statistically likely to have/develop a heart problem?
(The internet seems to think that its the gene stastics things and not actually having been diagnosed with a heart defect.)
He had the heart problem
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it's actually pretty reasonable to screen astronauts for heart defects.