There is often progress made in common anger or common aggravation. Rarely with common fear. If all the people on earth were made to be angry or fear the end of the race due to single planet-hood we could potentially get colonizing a bit faster
Nothing , there will always be a higher power or society with it's own agenda. People don't negate progress , the corporations and the powers that be do.
No, no, no. Psychopathy is an almost insignificant problem, and there's a plethora of problems with genetically tampering with humans. Have you never seen gattaca?
It's only natural for humans too