I think you ' re wrong to combine this line of thought with eugenics . Eugenics was problematic not because it encouraged better genes over others but because of how it did this forced sterilizations being one of those horrors . You can support a genetic improvement to humanity without supporting eugenics . However , many futurists have written about this . When thinking about some large societal change , possibly the best resource is science fiction what would happen to society if it did this ? For the genetic improvement you ' re talking about , we have Gattaca . This movie explores a future society that has made this change and exposes its fundamental problems to us . Of course , not everybody agrees . Juan Enriquez thinks that genetic improvement is actually a moral imperative .