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Platos: "He opted for proportional inequality in the distribution of all careers, including ruling, defense, and the provision of goods and services, on the basis of **inborn inequalities in intelligence, spirit, abilities in the arts/crafts, and appropriate education**."
So, he sees justice in inequality that arises out of traits that are just handed to people at conception, without them having to contribute anything.
Am I the only one that sees deep injequality and injustice in the fact that factors that people have no control over, either earn them applause or deep disrespect from others? I am not a philosopher, but to me it'd seem righteous if we attempted to reduce inborn inequalities, not through elimination of people that are on the left end, but through enhancement of them, in order to bring them to the right of the curve, either through genetic technologies or other enhancing tech that might be invented in the future. We try to achieve the best for our children: we provide healthcare for them, we try to send them to the best schools, we try to inspire them to think about the world. All in all we want them to grow up in an environment that fosters their brain, because we want them to be capabale. But according to all respected research available, at least 50% and maybe up to 80%, of all intellectual traits that we so deeply care about and that are so essential to success in our modern society, are entirely decided by the genome.
To me it seems obvious that genetic engineering is the next step in trying to reduce inequalities. I don't want to get into a debate about inequal distribution should that technololgy become a reality. I am from Germany, a country with universal healthcare, that would pay for such gene therapies should they arrive. You can argue that the inexistence of such system in your country would result in genetic technology increasing inequality instead of reducing it, but that is not an argument against the technology itself, but against the healthcare system that you currently live in.
There's nothing here!