PS: Mary Shelley

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PS: Mary Shelley

Mary Anne — 4/21/2004 1:04:43 PM (archived)

You can't really believe that a novel that deals with reanimation of a group of unrelated body parts and the subsequent abandonment of the creature thus created, with the accompanying social trauma to the creature, violence to society, and coverup by the irresponsible scientist (to the point of being an accessory to the execution of an innocent girl and the murders of two members of his own family) is about opposition to the use of electricity in general, can you?

The irresponsible and ignorant use of science and technology is the single biggest threat facing the human race today. Terrorism can merely destroy our civilization. We can sidestep that whole threat by destroying the planet, or destroying our species' ability to diversify by selecting traits that look good in People Magazine.

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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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