Happy and passive mean more productive animals

[Bruce McAuley]

Science Daily
An interesting line of research for breeding long term happiness into a population of animals, and also plants, apparently.
My question: Will or SHOULD it be adapted to humans?
Is this eugenics?

Bruce

[Desertrose]

1. I find this extremely sad....

"long term happiness" or just total passivity...BIG DIFFERENCE IMHO.


This strikes me as really sad ......the way animals are bred, raised & treated as objects to be consumed seems way off track to me.....

I'm sure there are some who would LOVE to do it to humans...heaven help us all...

[Deja Q]

2. Happiness creates productivity. The concept you post is tantamount to

subjugation.

Quite a difference there.

REAL freedom is not subjugation, exploitation, et all. It's working together for the common good and camaraderie. And that will lead to more intense happiness than any amount of genetic mish-mash would ever even try to come close to.

[Bruce McAuley]

3. I realize some will think this eugenics or subjugation...

But if you read the article closely, what they're advising is getting rid of aggressive animals to make the rest happier.
The premise is that the aggressive ones hurt the group by not only denying the lowest ones food, but also overeating themselves and wasting resources that could be better distributed among the rest.
By their account, it would only take two generations of ridding the world of aggressive humans to give us hundreds of generations of peace, and after all, isn't peace the objective of the human race? Are we willing to take the measures necessary to achieve it? It could be as easy as sidetracking aggressive individuals at a young age and making sure they do not reproduce, or as complex as a series of games where the most aggressive ones die.
Just wondering.

Bruce

[wli]

4. definitely worth thinking about wrt. the neocon neo-Nazis

Confining them to isolated communities where they can try to live how they want to normally but restricting travel, population, and interbreeding might do it humanely. Ethicists need to think about it.