🚀 go-pugleaf

Dan, honestly, because they comprise about 99% of the posts in co.general, and I
really think they belong in co.politics alone.  Otherwise, why bother having
more than one group for Colorado at all?  Am I really the only person that gives
a rat's ass about this?

Dan D. wrote in message <74mlk3$343$1@news1.rmi.net>...
>In co.general Larry McQueary <mcqueary@nospam.com> wrote:
>->Everybody say it with me:  co.endless.content-free.rhetorical.wars.  But not
>->co.general.  Thanks.
>
>Why don't you learn to killfile threads which don't interest you?
>
>-DanD
>
>->Melissa wrote in message <36635501.0@news.mho.net>...
>->>In article <36632a55.134752879@news.dimensional.com>,
>->>   weiser@dimensional.com (Scott Weiser) wrote:
>->>[...]
>->>>>What about tobacco smokers?
>->>>
>->>>Their conduct just kills them, it doesn't really affect their
>->>>judgement or their ability to function in society.  No, I'd just
>->>>relegate them to only smoking in their own homes.
>->>
>->>In the closet with the lights out. :)  Remember, smoking around others isn't
>->>exactly victimless. 5 year olds in smoking households have been found to
have
>->>impaired lung function, and are much more likely to get asthma later, so
that
>->>makes it a form of child abuse.
>->>
>->>..
>->>>It's such a shame that Hitler gave eugenics such a bad name.   There's
>->>>nothing intrinsically wrong with trying to improve the human genome or
>->>>with trying to prevent the spread of inherited genetic faults.
>->>
>->>Like maybe homosexuality or transsexualism? Not to deny that it may have
been
>->>much more convenient to society, had I been snuffed in the womb.
>->>
>->>> We
>->>>still do it to some small extent by requiring blood tests before
>->>>marriage so that obvious and well known faults like hemophillia which
>->>>are certain to create ill children are detected early.
>->>
>->>There's a difference between filtering for real known diseases and some of
the
>->>other uses such techniques could be put to.
>->>
>->>>Indeed, it's Nature's mandate that we do so, whether we do it
>->>>conciously or not.   Evolution is intended to weed out the unfit.
>->>
>->>And it's one thing when nature does it, and quite another when people start
>->>dinking around.
>->>
>->>I'm concerned that someday soon, some Nazi loon will cook up an airborn
version
>->>of ebola, which only affects blacks and Jews. That's scary!
>->>
>->>>  We,
>->>>as sentient beings however, have found far too many ways to frustrate
>->>>natural selection.   This may be a philosophically attractive thing to
>->>>do, but it may also be species suicide in the long run.
>->>
>->>Context is everything, eh?
>->>
>->>>I think that such genetic counseling should be mandatory for those
>->>>wishing to procreate.  I don't suggest that they should be forbidden
>->>>to do so, but few rational adults would choose to create a child
>->>>doomed to a short, unpleasant life from some genetic flaw in the
>->>>parents.
>->>
>->>True, but when you get into dictating things like sexual orientation, or
other
>->>things that some may consider less than desirable, and others may not, it
>->>really gets to be playing with fire. You could wind up with a world of nice
>->>"normal" zombies.
>->>
>->>>As we learn more about genetics, and how to predict the grosser
>->>>abnormalities, we should indeed do what we can to eliminate them from
>->>>the gene pool by making certain that parents are fully informed of the
>->>>consequences of their choice to procreate.
>->>
>->>Stay tuned, eh?
>->>
>->>>The difficulty is, of course, ensuring that such programs are not
>->>>turned to evil, as Hitler did.
>->>
>->>And who gets to decide what's evil and what's not?
>->>
>->>> That's admittedly a tough job, but if
>->>>any nation can do it, we can...if we make the choice to do so.
>->>
>->>What a thrilling prospect to look forward to. If the ebola doesn't get me
>->>first.
>->>
>->>..
>->>>It's interesting that Switzerland has been trying the "Getafix
>->>>Centers" to try and reduce drug crime and violence, with places where
>->>>addicts can go and get government-approved drugs.   Seems it's not
>->>>working very well, and they have just voted to do something else.
>->>
>->>Why wasn't it working well? I heard something about them voting not to
legalize
>->>all drugs now.
>->>
>->>
>->>That's my opinion  - Melissa
>->>
>->>"It's not easy being cute." - The Warner Brothers' sister Dot.
>->>
>->>To email me, remove the spam proofing capital letters on each side of the @
>->>in my email address.
>
>
>
>--
>#  Dan D (kd4igw)  dand@rmii.com    dand@frottage.com  http://rmii.com/~dand
>#  Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet
>#  he has left it out of his heaven.  -Mark Twain