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patrick ( 09/08/2003, 08:12:55 )Oh goodness. Where to begin? Yes, life adapts to its changing environment, in part, by having the genetic structure, DNA, which mutates throughout its generations thereby increasing its chance for survival. That DNA is the blueprint, so to speak, for the construction of the organism in question. However, as any on site construction supervisor will tell you, the end result is not always one hundred percent faithful to the design in the blueprint. Even so, if that blueprint is terribly flawed then the construction of that organism is doomed and what results is known as genetic disease. One fundamental truth is that construction is easier than reconstruction. So, where is the virtue in applying radical technology to the end of perpetuating the existence of undesirable genetic mutation? You call me heartless, i'll call you short-sighted. A point i've been trying to make is that any single life is meaningless, whether it's human or insect or tree or protozoa. Save that emotional business for the news. Life is not set on the scales of Themis to be judged just or unjust. Some are born defective, get over it.I consider myself unaffiliated. With god, that is. My belief most neatly fits into the category of agnosticism, though i don't claim to care one way or the other. But for the sake of argument:The way i learned in sunday school is that knowledge was not a gift from god. It was an ill gotten gain by the first lady of eden and she paid for it with her banishment from paradise. Sounds to me like god was rather severely irked that we got it from him. Not to mention what he did to that poor serpent. But you're agnostic, so that story is meaningless to you; yet you say knowledge was the co-greatest gift from god. You confuse me. Here again, religion is no proper basis for logical argument, so i digress.Moving right along. Technology is not all it's cracked up to be. Can you honestly say that we are having more fun today than ever before? Or that in the US, where advanced technology is presumably more widely available than anywhere else on earth, people are engaged in far more thrilling lifstyles due in whole or in part to the accessibility of that technology? Oh, excuse me, you mentioned 'quality of life'. You're obviously refering to the way our advanced technology has made life so much easier to live, resulting in the explosion of obesity and the increases in health risks that accompany it in our society. Not to mention the new psychological issues of increased stress, and attention deficit disorders caused by an intolerably fast-paced lifestyle and the stigma associated with being dramatically overweight.(particularly for the children) And then there's the matter of how everyone has been made so lazy by the myriad time/effort saving devices meant to make everything easier and then taken for all their worth by other time/effort saving devices meant to make up for the people's new inactivity by making excercise a matter of couch-potato shock treatment. Wow, thank god for technology. But wait, it could be that that obesity is caused by a genetic condition. Well we wouldn't want to deprive or society of that gem in the future, would we? Not to mention the other genetic diseases one could name... . Then the education. Yes the shaping and enhancing of young minds. That explains the US having one of the worst public education systems in the industrialized world.Further... "The benefits of cloning outweigh the prevention of progression" means what, exactly? Though it makes no sense, i think i see what you're getting at but what are those benefits? Explain them. I'd like to hear that you have some original ideas for the use of cloning technology that might convince me that it is a good thing and a logical pursuit for human ingenuity. well too long already... have a pleasant night. Luck----------------------------------patrick
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