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From: vin@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Vincent J. Erickson)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,sci.research
Subject: Re: Gene Pool (for the last time!)
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Date: 10 Feb 89 15:10:02 GMT
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Let's please stop this pointless discussion about the "weakening" of
the human gene pool. The gene pool is not "weakened" by the survival
of those individuals who in the past would have died. There are far,
far too many individuals in the species for that to ocurr. There is
only one way to weaken a species' gene pool. Kill off all but a few of
the individuals of the species (ala the California Condor). Limiting
the gene pool to a few, inbred individuals is how a gene pool is
weakened. The wide variety and range of human individuals guarantees
that the human gene pool remains digustingly strong. If there was a
way to keep certain individuals from reproducing, it would not be
those who are unfortunate enough to suffer from rare hereditary
diseases, but those who post enormously callous and stupid things
about how such individuals are to be seen as "weakening" the overall
health of the human species. I have never ceased to be amazed at the
shallowness of some "educated" people. So easy it is to lower other
people's status, until they are "infections" in the gene pool.

If sick or disabled people make you uncomfortable, see a psychiatrist.
If Hitler had, maybe the dream of a "master race" would have saved
some millions of "substandard" people their fates in the gas chambers.