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Article #1123Re: Gene Pool (for the last time!)
From: Vincent J. Erickson
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1989 15:10
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1989 15:10
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Let's please stop this pointless discussion about the "weakening" of the human gene pool. The gene pool is not "weakened" by the survival of those individuals who in the past would have died. There are far, far too many individuals in the species for that to ocurr. There is only one way to weaken a species' gene pool. Kill off all but a few of the individuals of the species (ala the California Condor). Limiting the gene pool to a few, inbred individuals is how a gene pool is weakened. The wide variety and range of human individuals guarantees that the human gene pool remains digustingly strong. If there was a way to keep certain individuals from reproducing, it would not be those who are unfortunate enough to suffer from rare hereditary diseases, but those who post enormously callous and stupid things about how such individuals are to be seen as "weakening" the overall health of the human species. I have never ceased to be amazed at the shallowness of some "educated" people. So easy it is to lower other people's status, until they are "infections" in the gene pool. If sick or disabled people make you uncomfortable, see a psychiatrist. If Hitler had, maybe the dream of a "master race" would have saved some millions of "substandard" people their fates in the gas chambers.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!meccts!meccsd!vin From: vin@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Vincent J. Erickson) Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,sci.research Subject: Re: Gene Pool (for the last time!) Keywords: plants, pathogens, mail, horticulture Message-ID: <1277@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG> Date: 10 Feb 89 15:10:02 GMT References: <8737@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Reply-To: vin@meccsd.UUCP (Vincent J. Erickson) Distribution: usa Organization: Minn. Educ. Comp. Corp. Lines: 20