10. Lošinjski dani bioetike - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

genome for the purpose of “positive” social selection. Explaining the roots
of eugenics, the horizons of the same are also questioned. The questions
that eugenics pose are (xeno)bioethical in nature. The augments, as products
of the future, are someone (or something) which is an unknown other.
Nevertheless, the augments would be the product of anti-natural activity.
The history of eugenics as a systematic selection of “the stronger and
those with higher IQs” starts with Plato, and continues with F. Galton (its
creator) to the present, including Nazi eugenics and A. Hitler’s ideas. From
the many (xeno)bioethical questions that this (pseudo)science poses, the
first that immediately comes to mind is: “Who has the right to play God?”
The first “God’s committee” (Seattle, 1962) was about who does and who
does not have the right to life. “Eugenics’s God’s committee”, on the other
hand, is about who has the right to create/reproduce new life.
In the end it must be pointed out that the so-called “society of the
future”, i.e. the augment society, is somewhat utopian. The ultimately utopian
question is whether the usage of eugenics makes terrestrials become
extraterrestrials.
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