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It could serve as a base for expanded operations in space.
lol, that's rather putting off the point.

I imagine asteroid mining (which is something we'll be able to take more seriously in the coming years) would have a use for a lunar colony.
No, taking asteroid materials into the moon's gravitational well would be a complete waste of resources.

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I have the same argument against this as I do when it is argued that only people with a certain IQ should be able to breed. It is as fallacious and frankly dim to assume you can fix people by fixing genes as it is to assume you can fix people by fixing the way they are raised. Both behaviorism and its opposite have been thoroughly refuted for over half a century. As far as I'm concerned you may as well be advocating phrenology, that's how anachronistic your thinking is. I suggest you take a course in human behavioral biology, Stanford offers a free one on youtube.
The idea that genes and environment affect psychology is anachronistic? You have no clue what you're talking about. Maybe watch that course you mentioned.

The most you could hope for is some type of Brave New World style dystopia wherein certain people are bred to be more docile and obedient. I would find this outcome tragic, and frankly I think that manipulation and control over genes is inferior to natural selection because natural selection implies complete anticipation whereas man is limited by the scope of their perception. I would rather tolerate a little aggression than to surrender biology's greatest strength.
Natural selection implies complete anticipation? What on Earth does that mean? Because it sounds like you need to take a basic biology course, too. Perhaps read about vestigial structures like the recurrent laryngeal nerve of giraffes.

I'm not talking about removing anger. I'm talking about understanding and counteracting psychological phenomena such as dehumanisation.