Originally Posted by
SteyrAUG
As it was based upon blood theories related to things like dog breeding with no understanding of genetics at all, I completely agree.
I could understand a genetic based program "in theory" where we tried not to propagate those with severe hereditary issues, but I'm not sure how we could accomplish that "in practice" without doing some seriously inhuman things. It would be nice to eradicate things like severe health problems that are genetically predictable and spare the next generation, I just don't know how we could actually accomplish that without dictating who can lawfully reproduce.
And even if we did, there is no guarantee we'd actually get the results we expected and the unexpected consequences could even be more severe. There have been lots of groups who tried to purify their bloodline with dramatic consequences.
I still remember the early attempts with gene therapy. Everyone thought it was going to fix everything, until it didn't.