Dr. J. Budziszewski

You would have to enforce sterilizations.

You would have to be brutal.

And...

You would have a world with no children, and I think that would be a brutal world.

People think, oh, how wonderful, we'd live forever.

It already is a brutal world.

I read somebody once, or was this a student, somebody was saying, if we lived forever, we'd have time to work on our virtues all that much longer and we'd become better and better and better.

Yes, that's right.

If somebody hasn't become virtuous by the... 607.

Yeah, he's not going to be.

He's going to become worse and worse and worse.

He's going to become more and more depraved and lonely and miserable.

Would that be okay?

Well, no, you do have some difficulties here because it's one thing to fill a tooth.

It's another thing to monkey with the genes.

And I don't really have... I may be wrong on this, Matt.

I don't think that I have...

If I'm right, the vulnerability to cancer, the vulnerability to tooth decay is not a result of our design, but it's a glitch.

It's a recessive gene or something like that.

And so conceivably, you could fix all those things.