Concerning the human condition, surprisingly, Schleim criticises me for being overly concerned about the present states of poverty, war, and the many current violations of human rights around the world. He dismisses these worries as "rhetorical" (again comparing my arguments to those of Skinner and Delgado). Schleim seems to be at relative ease with the present state and future of humanity and, referencing Steven Pinker, draws the conclusion that there is hope that things will change for the better, so there is no need to be epigenetically proactive. Different world-views here confront one another.
Schleim concludes in what seems to me again a spirit of denial that people might be saddened by “focusing too much on their deficiencies” and ends his commentary by saying that “in the attempt to create superhuman beings a human catastrophe might also be provoked” (Schleim this collection, p. 12). True, no doubt—as, notably, Germany's recent past illustrates. But this is not particularly relevant to my article: there is nothing in the theory of epigenetic proaction to suggest that we either should or could create "superhumans".