Soon after this became apparent, the First Law of Human Selection was "discovered". Researchers observed that the primary way a person becomes successful or a failure is by the selection within the immediate family. Basically, the family speaks about their favorite offspring more than other offspring, and offspring which are not well suited to succeed are quite often hardly spoken about at all (out of shame).
That is when the "Open for Life" program was started. Originally, it was created for people with birth defects, mutations, inherited diseases and such. Shortly after the human genome had been mapped they started a genetic engineering department to fix some such debilitating conditions. The program was a huge succes, and therefore it became extended more and more. Today, there is almost nothing that cannot be resolved through the services of the Open for Life Department. All that is required for enrollment is the consent of the individual -- or, in case the individual is under the age of 18, the consent of the parents / guardians.
The program had also shown itself to provide an alternative route to the use of anti-depressant pharmaceuticals. In the early days of the program, such a large portion of the population had used anti-depressants at some point in time, it was becoming hard to find doctors who were able to prescribe them who were not taking these medications themselves -- it had truly reached epidemic proportions. Researchers had also found that the primary reason for a person to use anti-depressants was because other people were not satisfied with them in some way.
It was then the the Law of the Human Environments was written -- this law states that the other humans are the environment that each human needs to be adapted to. This is also sometimes referred to as the law of social integration, and it harkens back many centuries, all the way back to the idea that "man is a social animal". Unlike other animals (which will "get to know" almost anything that crosses their path and seems half-decent), humans have a high degree of social networking, such that people across the entire globe actually affect each other in this networked fashion. This principle of the massive decision (some people say that in earlier days they had another name for it, but no-one remembers what that name was -- or perhaps no one dares to name it that) is a globally accepted principle: if a broad mass of civilization deems any human (or human behaviour) unsuited, then it is unsuited.
People are now generally well suited -- and for those who are not, there's the Open for Life program.
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