Nothing brave about it

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Nothing brave about it

FrankC — 4/20/2004 4:00:26 PM (archived)

Brave means courage to face the unknown. Genetic alteration is an attempt to illiminate the unknown.

Theoretically it could be great but when unascended humans are involved it seldom turns out that way. How would you like to be a Delta, knowing you were made that way on purpose and with a bit more luck you could have been an Alpha or a Beta.

I know that Alphas and Deltas is not what you have in mind and Gattica is more to you liking but look at the chemical mistakes we have made. How long would it take to figure out after years of recoding that we have lost something beyond recovery.

But, like you said the genie is out of the bottle.

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A good read. - Lee - 4/19/2004 3:52:51 AM
- So's this - Fox - 4/23/2004 2:43:15 PM
  - Sorry Charlie, such scare tactics aren't going to work. - Lee - 4/24/2004 2:47:18 AM
    - re: "scare tactics" - Fox - 4/25/2004 2:09:57 AM
      - And it's still being carried out. - Lee - 4/25/2004 5:43:38 AM
        
        re: "This idea may bother some people, but I'm not one of them." - Fox - 4/25/2004 6:32:27 PM
        
        You're misreading what I said. - Lee - 4/26/2004 3:56:09 AM
- Tread carefully - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2004 5:11:37 PM
  - All the more reason to try. - Lee - 4/22/2004 6:03:55 AM
  - *very* nicely put (n/t) - Fox - 4/22/2004 2:21:47 AM
  - Nicely Put - Nick Hoffman - 4/22/2004 12:47:27 AM
- re: My two cents - Success_Machine - 4/20/2004 8:40:34 PM
  - re: More Canadians born by C-Section than ever before - Success_Machine - 4/21/2004 6:03:41 PM
- Too spooky for me - FrankC - 4/20/2004 2:51:54 AM
  - If we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we? - Lee - 4/20/2004 5:57:50 AM
    - Nothing brave about it - FrankC - 4/20/2004 4:00:26 PM
    - "Brave New World": excellent choice of phrase! - Mary Anne - 4/20/2004 12:51:50 PM
      - Yes I have, I just wanted to get your attention. ;) - Lee - 4/21/2004 5:54:54 AM
        
        PS: Mary Shelley - Mary Anne - 4/21/2004 1:04:43 PM
        
        Yes I do. - Lee - 4/22/2004 6:40:21 AM
        
        re: PS: Mary Shelley - McFly - 4/21/2004 9:43:14 PM
        
        I take it you are volunteering for selective breeding experiments? - Mary Anne - 4/21/2004 12:47:15 PM
        
        re: One other question - Fox - 4/23/2004 3:15:45 PM
- Finally men discover a way to make themselves redundant. - Mary Anne - 4/19/2004 8:03:39 PM
  - You wrote: "I've heard tell that the Y chromosome is gradually self-destructing anyway." I read the same nonsense. - David F Mayer - 4/19/2004 10:44:57 PM
    - yeah, but the invention of the vibrator is an accelerator of that trend.......... (n/t) - Publius - 4/20/2004 7:02:29 PM
    - Mammals have only been "dominant" for 65 Ma - Nick Hoffman - 4/20/2004 5:35:21 PM
      - "Lack of females may have done in dinosaurs" - RobVG - 4/21/2004 4:28:15 PM
        
        The REAL reason dinosaurs became extinct. - Nick Hoffman - 4/22/2004 12:43:07 AM
    - Think about it: for 200 million years, there has been one delivery system for sexual reproduction among mammals. - Mary Anne - 4/20/2004 12:41:47 PM
      - It certainly doesn't produce a hardier organism. - Nick Hoffman - 4/20/2004 5:30:07 PM
        
        Have you noticed that fewer boys live to adulthood, relatively speaking, than their sisters? - Mary Anne - 4/20/2004 9:53:27 PM
        
        540 million years can't be wrong.... - Fox - 4/22/2004 3:26:16 AM
        
        link correction - Fox - 4/22/2004 4:29:42 AM

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