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People on 4chan were talking about that sort of thing at least 15 years ago. I think it was on /tg/, if I remember. They were also much more concerned with the trolling/ethical thought of breeding for the brain. What if you bred someone who only had the thought of serving a master?
I think that's enough evidence for me that selective breeding is horribly fucked in its outcome no matter the original aims, and the closest we should come is eliminating the 'will kill you' diseases.
What if curing cancer resulted in the creation of a slave cast. Sounds like a pretty good star trek episode
I guess that movie is called Elysium.
At this point I'm wondering if our idiot overlords are using these fantasies as a guide rather than a warning