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From: sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth Gordon)
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Subject: Re: Gene pool
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Date: 4 Feb 89 20:53:24 GMT
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morimoto@intvax.UUCP (Alan Morimoto) in <674@intvax.UUCP>:

`[I]f there were a major disaster that restricted medical professionals to
`treating those who were injured, i.e. a war, then we would have a lot of
`dying people out there, dying from cronic illnesses.

So don't go to war.  Sounds like a good idea to me.

`  My point is that maybe
`we need to look at what long term effects we are creating by breeding
`diseases into our future generations.

The effect, dear sir, is called "freedom."  People with genetic diseases
have *every right* to have children, because they have *no moral
responsibility* to keep "our future generations" hale and hearty in a
"stronger gene pool."

BEING DISABLED IS *NOT* IMMORAL.  

Therefore, 

BEARING CHILDREN WHO ARE DISABLED IS *NOT* IMMORAL.

`  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?

Oh, yes, I'm sure our friends in the third world are beside themselves
with *joy* that their weaker citizens perish, and haven't the
*slightest* ambition to be "medically pampered" like we are.  They're
silly wogs, after all, and don't value human life the way we higher
cultures do.

`                {       Humans are the only animals that       }
`                {       don't breed to improve the species.    }

Thank God for that.  I was just listening to the cockroaches flirting
in the kitchen this morning, and I heard one say to another, "Honestly,
George, you're a sweet guy, but I'm only going to mate with a bug that
will give our children carbomate resistance."  Alas, poor George:
shut out of love because the females are so intent on improving the
species.

Get a clue, man!  Join the twentieth century!

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