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The Rights of GM Humans
An anonymous submitter writes "Some of the powers that be -- not just talking heads -- go on record about our genetically enhanced future in this Village Voice article. The anti-doping watchdogs of the Olympics say they'll ban GM athletes, and even athletes who have a grandparent with an enhanced germ-line. Would Ivy League schools slap a quota on these people to fend off the enraged parents of the "normal majority?" Imagine how a politician would fare if it became known she'd been tweaked in utero. Human history is rife with aristocide and mob attacks on perceived elites. Today lawmakers and regulators are eager to ban the technologies that would be needed to create a new breed of intellectually and physically superior people. But who's willing to stand up for the rights of this future generation? Environmentalists already deride GM crops as "frankenfood," so how far behind could the demonization of GM people be?"
What I find amazing is that so many of the *founding* memebers of these enviromentalist groups have quit becuase the groups have become too left wing. I think even one of the founders of Earth First! left due to it becoming too extreme even for him.
I saw the same Penn & Teller show, but it was all stuff I already knew. I really wish they'd tone it down and bring that show to the mainstream networks, because it's stuff people need to hear, and the abusive approach drives people away.
I actually became friends with some of these Earth Day types in college, and went to some of the marches and protests as a goof (I was also a semi-regular columnist for the school paper, so I was looking for stuff to write about). They really are the way the show depicted. These people are some of the stupidest, most worthless mothereffers you will ever meet. And, yeah, they tend to be pampered upper/middle class kids with too much time on their hands and too much empty space in their skulls.
I kept wishing a small asteroid would hit the area (after *I* reached minimum safe distance, of course). I think that was the beginning of my journey toward complete misanthropy. It's all just ideology. I am convinced that ideology will some day be recognized as a treatable mental disorder, but until then it afflicts about 95% of the worlds population.
And they think SARS is a threat. How many billions has ideology killed?
As for the athletes, I think we need to wait and see if we can ever treally tweak things to the point depicted in the movie Gattaca. Great film, BTW. On of the few movies that can really claim to be true science fiction.
--- Ban humanity.
There is protection from aids already.
Avoid flesh suppositories!