On one level I'm experimenting with different type of inflammatory comments to see how people respond.
However, if you've seen the movie, you know that my comment is not void.
On another level, I really think that subject at matter (genetically modifications) is such that its full implications are impossible to correctly predict on any scale you consider. Thus, it would be _wise_ for everyone to play it safe and consider the fact that we are ignorant and don't know everything.
Unfortunately people act like they do know everything and they also know the future a million years from now. It's pointless to tell them that they are willfully blind to any opposition so one recourse is caricature and irony.
Once in a while you'll stumble onto someone who asks you, how dare you tell me that I'm stupid? Well, if you say you know everything, you are. They might even get the point.
At least I'm stupid enough to know that I don't know everything.
Well, that would be an argument if you have bothered made it. Taleb, for one, has.
The reference is all wrong though. People in Idiocracy are just idiots -- the simple kind. That's the very base of the money.
Whereas people doing "genetically modifications" while they might not know all the implications of are not idiots, just smart people who commit hubris.
Different thing, different movie. Try "Jurassic Park" or "Frankenstein" for your kind of message.
My bad, and you have a point. But I don't see much difference between idiots that water plants with Gatorade and smarts that make it their business to save the world from hunger (and they just know how to do it)
On another level, I really think that subject at matter (genetically modifications) is such that its full implications are impossible to correctly predict on any scale you consider. Thus, it would be _wise_ for everyone to play it safe and consider the fact that we are ignorant and don't know everything.
Unfortunately people act like they do know everything and they also know the future a million years from now. It's pointless to tell them that they are willfully blind to any opposition so one recourse is caricature and irony.
Once in a while you'll stumble onto someone who asks you, how dare you tell me that I'm stupid? Well, if you say you know everything, you are. They might even get the point.
At least I'm stupid enough to know that I don't know everything.