{"id":56575,"date":"2016-12-05T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kazuo_ishiguro_were_coming_close_to_the_pt_where_we_can_create_people_who_a\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T03:00:25","slug":"kazuo_ishiguro_were_coming_close_to_the_pt_where_we_can_create_people_who_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56575","title":{"rendered":"Kazuo Ishiguro: We\u2019re coming close to the pt where we can create people who are superior to others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a two-tiered society with elite citizens, genetically engineered to be smarter, healthier and to live longer, and an underclass of biologically run-of-the-mill humans. It sounds like the plot of a dystopian novel, but the world could be sleepwalking towards this scenario, according to one of Britain\u2019s most celebrated writers.<\/p>\n<p>Kazuo Ishiguro argues that the social changes unleashed by gene editing technologies, such as Crispr, could undermine core human values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going into a territory where a lot of the ways in which we have organised our societies will suddenly look a bit redundant,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cIn liberal democracies, we have this idea that human beings are basically equal in some very fundamental way. We\u2019re coming close to the point where we can, objectively in some sense, create people who are superior to others.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/dec\/02\/kazuo-ishiguro-were-coming-close-to-the-point-where-we-can-create-people-who-are-superior-to-others\">Read it all<\/a> from the Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a two-tiered society with elite citizens, genetically engineered to be smarter, healthier and to live longer, and an underclass of biologically run-of-the-mill humans. It sounds like the plot of a dystopian novel, but the world could be sleepwalking towards<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56575\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,175,101,199,168,104,133,114,96,98,129,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}