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From: muller@ditsyda.oz (Carl Muller)
Newsgroups: sci.research,talk.politics.misc,sci.bio
Subject: Re: animal research
Summary: Constitution isn't everything
Message-ID: <1731@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 2 Feb 89 03:35:16 GMT
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In article <674@intvax.UUCP>, morimoto@intvax.UUCP (Alan Morimoto) writes:
> [Verbiage deleted]... My point is that we need 
to look at what long term effects we are creating by breeding
> diseases into our future generations.  I can imagine that countries that are
> not as medically advanced inherit a stronger gene pool of people simply
> because the weak will perish.  Will the future of the world be inherited by
> us, the medically pampered, or the third world?
> 
> 			--Alan

As any player of a Role Playing Game will tell you, Constitution
isn't everything. So called "Stronger" gene pools are rubbish.
*Much* bigger improvements in performance are possible through
things such as improved diet (as in the Japanese). Besides that,
the physically weak are not necessarily useless. Many geniuses
(such as Blaise Pascal) have had weak constitutions. Admittedly
they survived without modern drugs but not without adequate
sanitation (which is lacking in many third world countries).
With regard to "breeding diseases" into the population, have
we "bred Smallpox" into the human race by vaccination? There aren't
too many cases of it now, are there? After the disease was
practically eliminated, the preventative measures became
unnecessary.
With regard to the future of the world, why so "them and us"?
Shouldn't we be trying to give all of us adequate medical
facilities rather than worrying about factional differences?
-- Carl.     ("11. Thou shalt not waste bandwidth.")