guess you're on the list to reject a blood transfusion should you ever need one then, huh?

I will never be fortunate enough to have my conscious ported into a computer, or become a robot/android. Life's not fair. Someone hold me.

1) Gene therapy is to make genes that are not normal more normal. it is not to create a new species.

2)this thread isn't about animal husbandry or horticulture. Though, i will say that i feel these practices can also have slippery slopes.
3) No, in function. In most cases it's a mixture VS solution situation. one is a sum of separate parts, the other creates a new whole.






im not sure how anything i posted said that a single treatment would cure something like that.
but yes, treatments would be continuous, as in most cases they are not re-writing the individual, rather they are a supplement.

Of course your body can reject transplants. that's why i said transplants would need to accepted by your body. it shows that the transplants are not changing you into something else, as the examples that were listed in the OP do.

at any rate, this is why I don't feel that the procedures listed in the OP are right for ME.
Everyone else... have at it for all i care. I'll be long gone before it gets out of hand.

Gene therapy is the exact same science. Some genetic diseases even do have some benefits. For example, Sickle-cell disease helps protect against malaria. It has downsides too, but it's an example of us becoming a new species naturally (we are constantly evolving). Not to mention how modern life has made us a new species. Do you know what driving does to your bone structure? We are not the same species as we were before industrialization. We are constantly changing ourselves, we can just now do it with extreme precision directly on the genetic level.

So in case you didn't get the point I was trying to make: there's no such thing as not-normal genes, just genes that are different due to natural mutations. We see this as wrong, but it's natural. Gene therapy is then therefore making us a different species from where nature would have us go. Furthermore, even before gene therapy we've been shaping our own evolution for centuries now.

The ONLY difference is the tool used. We've been altering our species for centuries. The only difference is now we do it with a genetic scalpel instead of a hammer.

Ask most of the people on these treatments and they will tell you how they are different from they used to be. They're the same person in mind, but quite a different person in other respects.

You missed what I was saying. I pointed out how we FORCE our bodies to accept them, because except in the case of identical twins, our bodies WANT to reject them. We just suppress it's ability to reject them until it is desensitized to their existence. This is an artificial acceleration of how our body deals with assumed antagonists.

Not to mention you missed my remark how certain groups of people used to (and a very small minority still do) think that a donated organ was an abomination and would change you. They were wrong because you are the sum of more than just your organs. Likewise, you are more than just the sum of your genes.


And that's fine



NOTE: I have no problem with your concerns over the safety and slippery slope dangers of genetic tampering. Those things bring very important topics to discussion when talking about altering genes in any organism and deserve serious discussion. What I don't agree with is your assertion that changing our genes will completely and utterly change us. Our genes naturally change (which is where genetic diseases come from) and we've been changing ourselves through various tools for centuries now. Genetic alteration is just another tool and no different from any that preceded it in that respect (however safety and slippery slope concerns are a different matter unrelated to that and something that must be questioned about any tool).

Gene manipulation? No.

I want cybernetic implants

And live one more day longer on this planet than I have to, with a species that will ridicule me of any choice I should make in this list?

No, thank you.

I'll take a casket filled with Twinkies, though.

No to all of them.

No to all. My body is mine alone. Scars and all. If anything I'd want some way to regenerate my own body with side effects that are plausible... as these side effects sound quite weird.

Though some are interesting to consider, I would say no to all of them.

Genetically modify yourself to.....

Have Night Vision at the cost of being a little fuzzy? No

Have enhanced Strength at the cost of having longer arms and a larger forehead? No

Gain the ability to regenerate lost limbs at the cost of being slightly green and scaly and losing all your hair? Yes

Be able to breath under water but no longer be able to breath normal air, and have webbed hands and feet? No

Have a melodic voice able to mimic many sounds exactly, at the cost of having feathers instead of hair? If I'm already hairless from regenerating limbs then I'll be featherless for this, so yes

Extend your life for the cost of having no hair, shorter limbs, and having a fused back? No

Transplant your brain repeatedly to gain immortality....

If it cost you a family member? Yes

If it was to another gender? Yes

Into another species? No

Download your consciousness to.....

A computer? No

A Robot? No

Permanent or Temporary? Neither

limb regeneration would be nice, and as for the green scales, i would just call myself lizardman