The built in "safety feature" against eugenic dystopia's are:
A) most people are retarded and would pick retarded things. Which would be cruel to people's kids being born with genetic duck lips and pinched faces. and
B) no-one knows the future so therefore no-one knows what "superior" genes actually are. Think about this one. "Superior" is dependant on the environment, and also to some degree sexual selection and scarcity.
Lets say only 30% of Women want brown eyes. This makes Blue eyes "superior" but if only 1% of the population have brown eyes, because 99% of parents follow the trend and select blue eyes. That 1 % has unrestricted access to 30% of the Female population.
Or another, more fanciful example would be Downs Syndrome. No-one would call missing a chromosome as "superior" genetics. But if there was a deadly and transmissible pathogen that specifically targeted the 24th chromosome, it would become superior.
C) You forget the natural enshittification of products. Any "products" will inevitably become shit. Having a first gen iphone when no-one else had one was probably a benefit at the time. But it's become so shit by generation 17 or whatever we're up too now, not having one is a marker of something better.
D) Eugenics is the natural process of selecting Mates via attractiveness. Symmetry is attractive, and symmetry is a marker of a healthy organism that is superior at surviving in that environment.
The built in "safety feature" against eugenic dystopia's are:
A) most people are retarded and would pick retarded things. Which would be cruel to people's kids being born with genetic duck lips and pinched faces. and
B) no-one knows the future so therefore no-one knows what "superior" genes actually are. Think about this one. "Superior" is dependant on the environment, and also to some degree sexual selection and scarcity.
Lets say only 30% of Women want brown eyes. This makes Blue eyes "superior" but if only 1% of the population have brown eyes, because 99% of parents follow the trend and select blue eyes. That 1 % has unrestricted access to 30% of the Female population.
Or another, more fanciful example would be Downs Syndrome. No-one would call missing a chromosome as "superior" genetics. But if there was a deadly and transmissible pathogen that specifically targeted the 24th chromosome, it would become superior.
C) You forget the natural enshittification of products. Any "products" will inevitably become shit. Having a first gen iphone when no-one else had one was probably a benefit at the time. But it's become so shit by generation 17 or whatever we're up too now, not having one is a marker of something better.
D) Eugenics is the natural process of selecting Mates via attractiveness. Symmetry is attractive, and symmetry is a marker of a healthy organism that is superior at surviving in that environment.