Originally Posted by protonitron

The difference between image based merchandise (practically vital to capitalism) and being genetically modified is that you can't take away the genetic modification to see what lies behind it. It isn't haves and have nots anymore, something determinable by your own decisions in life, it is "are and are nots". It takes the effort out of self improvement and makes success (or more importantly the lack thereof) much more determinable before birth. It is possible that anyone who wasn't GM would be discriminated against based on the assumption that they are worse (although they are likely to be, there will always be non GM hard workers who are treated unfairly). And saying that the NHS could cover everyone is ridiculous, they can't handle organ transplants let alone genetic modification of the entire population. And ynvaser, humanity can move on without the weak dying, as long as enough people die we can keep advancing, it doesn't matter if it is just the weak.

By the way, I am a little confused as to what kind of genetic modification we are talking about here, could someone post some links or just explain it please.