Rage: A Genetic Trait?
A random article suggests that anger/rage may be a genetic trait. While the article is pretty short, and doesn’t link directly to the study, if it’s true, it could mean a few things in the future…
It’s like an angry Picasso…
Baby Killing
Want a Utopian society? Well, if this rage gene is truly a “rage gene”, and can be detected early on, who’s to say that “the government” at the time (a world government?) doesn’t ban babies with these genes from being born? “Baby Killing” would be extreme, because we all know abortion is around, but either way it amounts to the same thing.
Super Soldiers
You know all of those movies where there’s a race of super soldiers? That could easily become a reality if “the government” decides not to prevent these rageaholic infants from being born, but rather makes sure to …acquire… all of them for early , and life-long, military training.
Segregation
Pretend that a bunch of these super-ragers figured out their genetic secret, and started banding together. You could very easily end up with a segregated, or “caste” if you prefer, world: the super angry in control of the world, and the rest of us “normals” living in subhuman colonies.
Feel the anger, my child…
Bleak?
I realize I painted a pretty bleak picture, and there’s obviously ways this could never happen (like, if it’s not real), but it’s always fun to try and figure out how apocalyptic movie scenarios can happen in real life, don’t you think?
