Posted on 01/06/2007 6:04:54 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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You ain't seen anything yet. Just imagine, a few generations down the road when we will not only have read and understood the genome, but will be in a position to re-write it and even to write one de novo. Then one would be dialing up healthy athletic geniuses, and nothing else.
Like the old "Little Tavern " hamburger joints. "Buy 'em by the bag".
Gee, I can make some mad money. Cool. Who knew?
Designer babies. The ultimate in selfishness.
The reason they use the quotes around the word "adopt" is because the actual legal transaction involved, under our legal system's current treatment of an embryo, is a purchase and sale of personal property.
Treatment of human lives as chattel or livestock did not end with the civil war, and was reintroduced to America in 1973.
Doesn't the congresswoman from Huston, that wanted to know if the mars lander could go over and see the lunar lander have a law degree.????
So I guess this process guarantees an IQ of at least 95. LOL
Well, you just can't have *too* many babies, right?
And Sheila Jackson Lee is a potential sperm donor? Who knew?
with a few dummies thrown into the mix- gotta have someone to blame when something goes wrong- lol http://sacredscoop.com
There are three sides to eugenics. Good, bad, and bizarre.
An example of good eugenics has to be put down to just plain luck. It happened in one of the idealistic communes of northern European immigrants in New York State in the 19th Century. Though they believed in strong families, procreation was based solely on the judgment of the leader. A woman was strong and a man was smart, so they were ordered to make a baby, that would then be raised by her and her husband. In three generations, this commune produced some 60 or so national leaders in many fields. But had it continued another generation, it would have genetically collapsed because of inbreeding.
A bad result of Eugenics is already happening with smart people. Tending to marry each other, we have now discovered to our horror that the children of two smart people are often autistic. Far more than for the rest of the population.
A bizarre case of what Eugenics might be came with a poll that went into far more detail about what typical parents might want if their child could be engineered to their specifications. At first, they responded typically with "smart", "pretty", and "athletic". However, with more and more questions, people started to admit that they would really like their children to have more 'feline' and 'canine' qualities. People seem to get along better with their pets than each other, so these people figured that if their children were more like cats or dogs, then everyone would like them.
Eugenics up to now [and for a while in the future] has been/will be conducted with a sledgehammer. Really interesting stuff could become possible in 100-200 years, when we will be rewriting genomes in minute detail.
The article said that the filter for lawyers and PHD's was for sperm, not eggs.
A few more things like this and the "good old USA" will be even more deserving of a nuclear holocaust.
An utterly appalling abomination.
Have you got a reference/link/whatever for that? That's the first time I've seen that assertion. Thanks!
That very odd. Do you have a link for that?
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