[FiggyPudding]

"breeding out" is the horrible version of eugenics.

Gene editing is the less family destroying, individual abusing way to go. As long as it's more focused on disease removal and less about having thousands of [insert favorite movie star/model here] walking around.

Like klyrs said, we want some weird in the gene pool

[Supermancho]

Gene editing is also the only way we'll get offworld-hardy humans. The time it will take to naturally select, when throwing unfit after unfit is impractical. This is still the same concept as "thousands of [model here] walking around", but with a focus on different traits.

This is all far-future when we are more experienced and knowledgeable about genes in total, at least after having made loads of mistakes. That's worrying, but inevitable.

[varelse]

We're going to have to rewrite humanity from the ground up if we want to colonize space because these delicate eggshell bodies of ours are just not compatible with hard vacuum. Nor will they fare well in inhospitable planetary environments.

Which is why I roll my eyes realizing that none of that will happen for a very long time but if you could make 60-year-olds look like 30-year-olds with an mRNA treatment or something similar, you would make Bezos and Musk look like paupers. It wouldn't even have to make you young on the inside and you'd still die in a decade or two but at least you'd leave a beautiful corpse because that's all that matters in the end.