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Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US
fatduck sends us a brief note from New Scientist about the overwhelming passage in the US House of Representatives of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. As written, the bill would prohibit insurance companies from charging higher rates, and employers from discriminating in hiring, based on the results of genetic tests. A Boston Globe editorial notes that the bill has been held up in the Senate by the action of a single senator, who has an (outdated) objection based on his anti-abortion stance. President Bush has said he will sign the bill if it reaches his desk.
'The rich you see, who by our social standards are the unsuccessful ones thus by your logic have better genes, do not reproduce as much.'
I haven't seen anything to support this assertion. This isn't the 1800's where having lots of sons is beneficial. My experience is that the well off have extreme consistency in selecting attractive mates and squeezing out a few brats. The poor may or may not have brats. As the costs for abortions and the availability of birth control spreads the problem shrinks even more.
I haven't seen any evidence that the poor have larger families than the wealthy anymore. It could be but I doubt it, as for unmarried and unprotected sex the wealthy are just as guilty as the poor. For this class of sex there is probably a greater chance of the wealthy choosing a poor (but attractive) mate. Don't confuse the fact that 99% of the population is poor with poor families having more children.
'The rich you see, who by our social standards are the unsuccessful ones thus by your logic have better genes, do not reproduce as much.'
I don't even follow that. You make a huge unsupported leap in logic here. By 'our' social standards the wealthy are unsuccessful? Who is 'our'? I don't know of any group that views the wealthy as the unsuccessful in any terms. At worst they are considered 'no better'.
I am not saying that society currently rewards the best or the worst. I am saying that genetic screening has the potential to be an objective way to identify bad genetics and that using this information will ultimately help society to reward the best with jobs and superior healthcare.
Just consider the potential, with the genetic testing of tomorrow we might be able to screen out George Bush as a presidential candidate.
Bigotry based on economics, social, and/or genetic defaults/dejure is still a hate crime against humanity. When I look, at the USA Drug-War, Bush-War ..., I see bigotry on an obscenely grand scale resulting in crime and murder on the streets of the USA and Baghdad Iraq. The politicians and other wave a flag and thump a book as justification for wasting young lives and money, and the public accept it as truth and the American-way (pitiable).
...), politicians (Bush, Chaney ...), autocrats (Kissinger, Poindexter ...) , plutocrats (Wolfowitz, Gates ...) dogmatist/corporatist (many, many more ...) and their delusional self-serving followers are genetic parasitic afflictions upon all humanity. I stuck with a few of the better known USA names, but there are plenty more for US, EU, UN others globally.
The USA, in many ways, is far more primitive than the ideals pontificated by politicians/dogmatist for cash/votes.
Most national/international religious leaders (Falwell, Robertson
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?