Dr. J. Budziszewski

It's not transhumanist to fill a cavity because the function of the tooth is to chew.

The cavity keeps it from chewing properly or causes pain.

So you fill the cavity.

It restores the function.

Fine.

Contrast that.

Correcting infertility is like that.

Yes.

By contrast with something that is really more transhumanist, and that's conceiving the children in a test tube and then re-injecting them.

Right, and that's also why...

And that's also why the church doesn't condemn an NFP, because in NFP, natural family planning, you're cooperating with the structure and the cycles and the patterns of the natural reproductive powers.

Well, anyway, so he says, on what possible basis can you decide that human beings like this would be better than human beings like this?

Human beings, for instance, who obeyed all their orders.

Well, it would only be because you have some desire for

Um, for what?

For power?

Or, you know, you're an industrialist, you have a power, you have a desire for... Are you saying what would my reason be for receiving the chip?

No, what would the motive of the controllers, the motive of the ones who designed the chips, and the motive of the ones who introduced these forms of conditioning... Well, capital.

Capital.

All right, let's say it's that.