[Hajman]

Also, who desides what 'upgrades' humans get, and which ones are 'better', and who desides how to handle the consequences of said upgrades (highly increased longevity has serious consequences. Namely, growth rate outgrowing resource rate. We have no problems at the moment, because our resources can keep up, and we have a relatively small growth rate. What happens when, instead, the population doubles each generation if we increase our longevity, say, 3 fold?)

-The Hajman-

[mamelukesabre]

What happens when an unintended negative side effect is created and then passed on to the next generation?

With animals, if this happened, they would simply cull the affected animals and stamp out the defect. Do you think they could do that with people??

Do you think they could even request that all affected individuals just voluntarily refrain from procreating? It sounds like a really messy situation to me.