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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: If you're going to argue stories, at least get your facts right!
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Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 18:24:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 25 18:24:17 1986
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>>The point is that the puppeteers wouldn't be able to improve on the result
>>of natural selection for luck without direct genetic surgery or somesuch.
>>The technique of the Birthright Lottery wouldn't have any effect; anything
>>selected for by that would have been selected for long ago by the cavemen who
>>managed to avoid the leopard...

So maybe it has been, and humans are already very, very lucky.  The
Birthrite Lotteries just provide a convenient handle for recognising
exceptionallly lucky humans.
-- 
	If you take a risk and fail it doesn't necessarily mean that
	you made a mistake.		-- David desJardins

Laura Creighton		
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