I see this as an elite pipe-dream, like AI; or like transhumanism.
No, AI is not the machine god that will end all of humanity and cause a loss of 100% of all jobs in an economy.
No, Transhumanism will not lead to the abolition of death, as all consciousnesses are uploaded into a computer.
No, a true ethnic or race based bio-weapon is not possible because the categories themselves are primarily cultural, guaranteeing that even if you could create one, you would get vast sums of other people being slaughtered. Sometimes, that's even intentional.
We actually see this all the time in genocides, ethnic cleansings, and racialist laws. Boundary conditions and "edge-cases" are exceedingly common. The Jim Crow laws in the South were absolutely all over the place in who did or didn't count as white, including one case in Mississippi where a Japanese family was declared white. The man who drafted the Nuremburg Laws had objections to the Holocaust as there was a ton of debate about who's "blood" was German enough, who's "blood" was too Jewish, and where children could be more German depending on how breeding control was set up. In Rawanda, despite it being a very clear ethnic distinction between Hutu and Tutsi, the genocide ended up murdering many of both because some Tutsi were living in Hutu communities and were considered guilty enough, or again, there were questions about inter-breeding, so they got killed anyway. Or sometimes the Tutsi were culturally similar to the surrounding Hutu. I've had to argue about this before, but even Israel's right of return is not a simple genetic test, and it never has been. That's one part of a larger examination about whom you married, if you've converted, and many other issues; that Leftist jews are trying to secularize (because if the Rightists & Orthodox won, they'd be denied re-entry into the country and citizenship).
It ends up not being possible to make a biological distinction among cultural categories.
I see this as an elite pipe-dream, like AI; or like transhumanism.
No, AI is not the machine god that will end all of humanity and cause a loss of 100% of all jobs in an economy.
No, Transhumanism will not lead to the abolition of death, as all consciousnesses are uploaded into a computer.
No, a true ethnic or race based bio-weapon is not possible because the categories themselves are primarily cultural, guaranteeing that even if you could create one, you would get vast sums of other people being slaughtered. Sometimes, that's even intentional.
We actually see this all the time in genocides, ethnic cleansings, and racialist laws. Boundary conditions and "edge-cases" are exceedingly common. The Jim Crow laws in the South were absolutely all over the place in who did or didn't count as white, including one case in Mississippi where a Japanese family was declared white. The man who drafted the Nuremburg Laws had objections to the Holocaust as there was a ton of debate about who's "blood" was German enough, who's "blood" was too Jewish, and where children could be more German depending on how breeding control was set up. In Rawanda, despite it being a very clear ethnic distinction between Hutu and Tutsi, the genocide ended up murdering many of both because some Tutsi were living in Hutu communities and were considered guilty enough, or again, there were questions about inter-breeding, so they got killed anyway. Or sometimes the Tutsi were culturally similar to the surrounding Hutu. I've had to argue about this before, but even Israel's right of return is not a simple genetic test, and it never has been. That's one part of a larger examination about whom you married, if you've converted, and many other issues; that Leftist jews are trying to secularize (because if the Rightists & Orthodox won, they'd be denied re-entry into the country and citizenship).
It ends up not being possible to make a biological distinction among cultural categories.