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From: ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.bio,sci.research
Subject: Re: Gene Pool (for the last time!)
Summary: psychiatry and the gene pool
Keywords: plants, pathogens, mail, horticulture
Message-ID: <10491@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 15:16:02 GMT
References: <8737@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1277@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG>
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In article <1277@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG>, vin@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Vincent J. Erickson) writes:
> Let's please stop this pointless discussion about the "weakening" of
> the human gene pool.

Let's *not* shut it down prematurely.  This discussion has been a classic
example of how a stupid suggestion can spark a number of interesting
and intelligent postings.

> 
> 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.

Alternatively, we could start a discussion on the very low success rate
of modern psychiatry.  :-(

In any case,  Hitler did not hold a gun to the heads of millions of Germans
and force them to murder so many innocent people.  The seductiveness
of racist mythology to otherwise normal people seems pretty well established.
-- 
 I'm not afraid of dying     Ethan Vishniac, Dept of Astronomy, Univ. of Texas
 I just don't want to be     {charm,ut-sally,ut-emx,noao}!utastro!ethan
 there when it happens.      (arpanet) ethan@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
    - Woody Allen            (bitnet) ethan%astro.as.utexas.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

These must be my opinions.  Who else would bother?