Is subby serious? The super techno legs are a huge farking advantage. You know you can't start farking with legless people anyways. You fark them and it's fine, but then they get on top. And when a legless person is on top they want to act all hot and shiat and have their hands in the air doing Dee's sexy little inflatable arm flailing tube man thing. But then they realize that they have to put their hands down to ride that dick with any sort of balance. So you concede and are like fark it, this biatch has a Gladiator van and one of these outlet store hospital beds with the creepy haunting banister thing above it. So she starts holding on to that shiat and you realize that those nubs are farking gross and you don't want to have her grinding like some sort of perverse weeble wobble, but you know, you can't just leave them hanging.

yelmrog: All2morrowsparTs: Donnchadha: Magorn: Will that answer change when genetics has advanced to the point that we can custom build our offspring?

I think that people (as a whole) will generally eschew the idea of genetically building offspring. The technology will be there, but something about that idea will just be too weird and creepy to really catch on. I'm not saying it will never happen, but I don't see it becoming "normal" or at least generally acceptable anytime in the near future.

Creepy Idea? sure. Will people shy away from it? Hardly. Look at those crazy ass parents botoxing thier kids, taking them to tanning booths and talking about surgicilly enhancing them before puberty.

If they had a chance to have designer babies they would jump on that chance in a minute.

This. People would kill for the chance to customize their kid.

It's pretty easy to customize your kid. If you want a loser, get a ginger pregnant and keep the kid if it comes out translucent and spotted. If you want a serial killer, just make him blow the dog when he pisses the bed. I'm not sure how to customize your child into good things but it's a start.

Tough question.
I'm stumped.

Donnchadha: Magorn: Will that answer change when genetics has advanced to the point that we can custom build our offspring?

I think that people (as a whole) will generally eschew the idea of genetically building offspring. The technology will be there, but something about that idea will just be too weird and creepy to really catch on. I'm not saying it will never happen, but I don't see it becoming "normal" or at least generally acceptable anytime in the near future.

It's going to happen, with a generation of super-boys out of Asia first, Indian parents giving birth to sons with perfect recall, 7' tall Chinese with all sorts of endangered species genes grafted into their DNA to give them an edge on the basketball court and university entrance tests. South Korea might act all, holier than thou Christian ethics and reject the science at first but wait till they see the ability to raise their mouse-click speeds with a few chromosome tweaks. And the Japanese will be outright horrifying as they fully morph into real-life anime characters.

America will have to follow suit out of necessity or we'll never win another spelling bee or video game tournament again and eventually be conquered by mecha piloted by tweens.

Can't we just give them this? They already lose their feet, throw them a bone.

ViralMonkey: This would make for an interesting spectacle.

I'd certainly like to see a 50m sprint with no drug testing.
Huuuuuge men exploding out of the blocks and rocketing forwards and then tearing muscles and falling all over the place would definitely be entertaining.

There may be some ethical implications about a system that essentially forced athletes to act as human guinea-pigs in order to stay competitive though :)


Like an All-drug Olympics?

I don't care. It's a game. Give him rocket shoes and a big dose of PCP. No skin off my back.

Here come the Super-special Olympics.

Cybernetic sprinters

Weightlifters who eat 'roids like Cheerios

Genetically modified swimmers with gills

Biathalon competitors with shoulder-mounted guns and targeting computers in their brains.

usernameguy: Scientists continue to be divided over whether a double amputee cyborg with hyper-legs would have an "unfair advantage" competing against able-bodied sprinters in the Olympics.



"Really now, deep down, I just want to be held at night."

The only debate in this is the definition of "fair".

Is it fair that some people are born with a genetic advantage? Should we have the Handicapper General weigh down the competitors in such a way that they all have a perfectly equal chance of winning and the only variations will come down to random quantum chance?

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