A Transhumanist Asks, "Why Not Be Superheroes?"

An article at TechCrunch poses the question, "Who's Afraid of Superhumanity?" Writer Michael Solana argues with "detractors of germline engineering," who he says

are betrayed by their true opinion: We can probably get the technology safely working, but what about the cultural ramifications?

What's to stop a very small group of people, now enhanced genetically well beyond the average human in every way imaginable, from winning at the zero sum game of life? They'd just take all the resources, r...