If an embryo is your property then you could modify it at your whim. If it ceases to be human because of the modification you have created the first generation of the slave race. This is so uplifting. It is under way. Tell me that there are not private laboratories forging ahead with this kind of experimentation already. Once you have some captive bred humans without birth certificates you are in the clear...
the modification you have created the first generation of the slave race
Exactly. Their first modification will be biological DRM, a kill-switch and psychological neutering.
You bet your ass they have been pushing ahead for some time now.
Not so long ago i believed that there existed agreed upon ethics, as a bulwark against what you describe.
What we've witnessed over the last few years, prove that what may have been, certainly is no more..
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