Comment by cyphar

2 days ago

> The Bene Gesserit woman knew it was healthy because of her abilities, and upon investigation it was found that the hospital’s AI had been running a eugenics program.

The irony. Perhaps the Bene Gesserit were just trying to "pace the frontier" of the eugenics market? Who can say?

The Dune Encyclopedia is essentially two eugenics programs clashing together, with one of them triggering a holy war in revenge that turned into self-destructive orgy of wholesale murder