For Smith, altered states of consciousness were mainly tools for the whiteous and righteous to vaporise whole solar systems of subversives, aliens and others with undesirable traits.
One of its concerns is that genes from a GM species might flow into unmodified neighbours, producing undesirable traits.
But its genomes still hold thousands of Chinese genes that could, at least in theory, produce undesirable traits as the trees age.
In the longer run, modifying those embryos offers a chance to practise a form of benign eugenics: for parents to eliminate undesirable traits from their children.
Or they can send the wine through a reverse-osmosis machine or other heavy equipment to diminish the alcohol and eliminate other undesirable traits, like volatile acidity.
The idea that some people possess undesirable traits that need to be winnowed out by forcefully controlling reproductive rights still seems, to all intents and purposes, a eugenicist argument.
But on the Half Sigma blog and elsewhere, the conversation is already flashing forward to what might happen if genetically encoded racial differences in socially desirable — or undesirable — traits are identified.
Now that treatment for PMS has become a legitimate field for scientific inquiry, other drugs will almost certainly be developed, and someday medication to alter normal but undesirable traits may become unremarkable.
At Slate, Jessica Grose calls the movie's main character an "omega male," a type she finds prevalent in today's mass culture, and which she defines as a passive guy whose undesirable traits (unemployment, uncouthness, immaturity) mark him as essentially undesirable — and which, in today's mass culture, are worn like a badge of honor and don't stop him from getting the girl.
However, majority of these germplasms possess many undesirable traits.
However, most of these donors have low yield potential and other undesirable traits.
