reply to post by 04326
Eugenics always enter through the backdoor and is hiding behind a veil of good intentions.
people can't even get money right, they built a bubble in the 1920s based on virtual money, resulting among other things, in depression, then war,
only to repeat the whole thing today, just augmented by online trading. believing that buying and selling meaningless (non-)things will somehow create
value is insanity, but even when the writing is on the wall and even when things tumble down like a house of cards, they won't listen or just thing
for a moment. no, they just bull ahead for the next craziest thing they can find, history be damned.
likewise, Eugenic(ist)s promised the blue out of the sky and people just wanted to believe at that time, for whatever reason (see paragraphs above)
and DNA sampling just gave them the excuse of the century to rejuvenate their 'lofty ideals'. nevermind that 98% of our genes are alledgedly junk,
nevermind that the track record of genetic modification of crops in particular has so far yielded less than stellar if not, on the long run,
catastrophic results. (visit the thread
GM crops and the coming Famine for an overview
of what i mean). yet, there are people who defend GM crops at any cost, who openly acknowledge their shortcomings, but feel that one should settle for
the worse, just, well, just because....
rational discourse is lost on them, always has been, they are merely trying to sound sensible, as long as it helps their concealment, but when it's
no longer needed expect to see a variation of holy war against us infidels. wait until pointing out the dangers of certain developments is
automatically deemed paranoid and requires medication, surveillance or, in the case of Eugenics, sterilisation and, later on, death.
just look at the amount of flags this thread and mine from May have garnered so far - less than the amount of replies, that much is certain. you'd
think that the prospect of genetic discrimination would have them up in arms, after all, Racism is such a constant topic around here, right?
apparently, this is, by and large, a welcomed development.
PS: genetic screening has been legalized in Britain, that's
exactly the scenario of the movie
Gattaca. we'll see when (not if) it will
get abused, and *IF* it will have real, as opposed to feigned, consequences for those actively involved, but don't complain if you ever happen to
fall off the ledge of a slippery slope, because you've been warned, hundreds, no thousands of times and if your particular bet is wrong you'll spoon
it out in full.
no matter how many innocent will perish along with you, you will spoon it out in full, because after WW2, the 'we didn't know' excuse won't fly
anymore.
