Humanity would be a perfect race if we could just go through at least 4 more mutations:
1. Lose our ability for bigotry and hate
2. Lose our thirst for violence
3. Increase our aptitude for patience -- good things take much longer than we like
4. Increase the median intelligence to the same point which is the current top ten percentile.
So what does the 4 mutations of humanity this have to do with my science fiction/fantasy fiction blog? Because in my opinion, the most important value of SciFi is to make us stop and think about what could be. Good SciFi fiction asks big "what if" questions, and challenges our dogmas and stereotypes. What if we overcame those lack of mutations, or even just one of them? I think this is the best genre to broaden our minds. This speculation often leads to dark and pessimistic views on the future, but not always. Take Star Trek, for example; humans learn to live cooperatively with each other, and other species. Nothing is more optimistic to me than the thought that humanity could someday overcome its 4 missing mutations, and SciFi helps me to visualize that, if only for a moment.
The same should be extended to all types of fictions. I just personally believe that scifi/fantasy is the best genre to achieve this.
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