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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

Yeah, right. And - as you've already been asked - how did they decide what genes fit with what job? How good of scientists can they be if they didn't even test their theories? (It's like coming up with a new molecules and injecting it in everyone's bloodstream without even trying it on animals first. Will it make us immune to HIV? Will it kill us all? Who knows?)

And the right genes give you an edge, true - but I'm more interested in the end result. What kind of person do you get? It's ridiculous to privilege genotype over phenotype. And that's what Dully, with his immediate, total implementation of the Destiny Plan, was doing. Not only that - even a generation later, how do you get a good enough control over people to make them into what their genes tell you they ought to be?

And you seem to keep missing the point that Goddess Lacus had got to Dully first before he could actually implement it.

And Dully wasn't saying anything about controlling people. Basically, it's their genes that do the deciding for them, not what Dully decides. If you're already made up of those things called DNA chances are you wouldn't be able to get a new set of DNA because it's already there and they are your passport to the high life or the not so high life. Once they've fit into the life they were really meant to be, what's the use of exercising control over them? Maximizing their potentials, knowing what actually suits them best...it would take away whatever discontent they had in the previous world and is replaced by blissful content. Who would even think of having their own free will "wrested" away from them, when it was their genes that dictated what they would be in the first place? Can you actually say "please I need another new set of DNA so I'll be able to become a bank manager"?

Genetic Manipulation is like building a good book collection in your library for your child... at best, it can be enrolling you child to a certain course/program.. it has no direct effect on the child's life pattern/career/wealth & social status... It is still up to the child to take the initiative to stroll into the library and read / learn from the books... the course/program has to interestingenough that the child is willing to go to class to finish the program... The child still have the ultimate say in his life/career.

Did Dully say anything about genetic manipulation? All he said was something about the genes already in place, how these genes will affect your standing in life; he wasn't going on a tirade that he'll actually turn the entire planet into a world of Coordinators.

In comparison, the Destiny Plan directly control every human being's future. A parent that's rich enough (or have the connection to manipulate a certain genes) essentially just wrote out the exact pattern of his child's life directly. You no longer create a child that is great in math, you create a doctor child, or a lawyer child, or a nurse child. And the children will have NO SAY in it. They cannot change their career because their gene dictates it!

And so you have also missed the point that Moon Eclipse was trying to tell you, and that is doing away with the system that dictates these sorry state of affairs (hence the Destiny Plan).

These two type of "god playing" is in total different level. In Destiny Plan, Free Will is destroyed.

And how could you say that Kira and Lacus world of "if you screw Lacus sama you get Strike Freedomed" is not destroying free will in itself? That they'[re basically allowed to do anything except have brains and actually go against the Goddess's wishes? Some free will, that. (extreme sarcasm)