What will you do to protect the rights of athiests and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
The government already mandates the teaching of atheist dogma in all public schools, while strictly forbidding the mention of any theistic religions, theories or philosophies. What more do you want?
For a short mission like a two year mission to Mars you can probably survive the dose with only a slightly increased chance for cancer later in your life (still much less than smoking). For permanent settlement, though, you need to do something about it. There is no way to protect against cosmic rays except mass. Lots of it.
But on the plus side you might get really cool powers, like bursting into flame, turning invisible, stretching really far, or being all rocky and really strong.
The fact is that if you've had a DNA test and there's no problem then you will be getting an advantage - companies will be more likely to insure you at a much cheaper rate.
Do you really believe that the insurers will significantly reduce rates and not just add their cost savings to their botton line?
What insurance companies would like to do is to put everyone into a pool of one, i.e., they would have a reliable estimate of how much each individual person is going to cost them. Then they charge a bit more than that, and make money.
At which point, the insurance companies become nothing more than an unnecessary middle man. You could just send the money send it directly to your doctor up front.
This lowers the rates for the majority of us without too many genetic defects, and allows those with such defects to know considerably earlier and take action. I see it as win-win.
What action are they supposed to take once they have been denied health insurance, unless they're independently wealthy? Maybe they will turn out to be you as genetic screening improves, by the way.
Imagine a small company putting togeter a nice Motorola computer ala IBM, so that duplication would be encouraged and profitable. Imagine
also that they used all free ware, so that anyone could develop software for it. Further imagine that they had enough marketing muscle to get the
thing noticed and it could be mass produced and cheap. If Apple would form a company to do this, and if they alowed this company to run it's
existing codebase, we would indeed be impressed with Apple. As it is, shrug.
He quit drugs, went on to an abusive relationship with a woman (she was the abuser...if I hadn't seen what she was doing with my own eyes I
never would have believed it). Then he joined a strict church...and adopted the same "Need" to have it control his life.
Was there something specific about his church you found to be controlling? Or do you just assume anyone active in a church is being brain-washed somehow?
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What will you do to protect the rights of athiests and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
The government already mandates the teaching of atheist dogma in all public schools, while strictly forbidding the mention of any theistic religions, theories or philosophies. What more do you want?
-jimbo
For a short mission like a two year mission to Mars you can probably survive the dose with only a slightly increased chance for cancer later in your life (still much less than smoking). For permanent settlement, though, you need to do something about it. There is no way to protect against cosmic rays except mass. Lots of it.
But on the plus side you might get really cool powers, like bursting into flame, turning invisible, stretching really far, or being all rocky and really strong.
-jimbo
The fact is that if you've had a DNA test and there's no problem then you will be getting an advantage - companies will be more likely to insure you at a much cheaper rate.
Do you really believe that the insurers will significantly reduce rates and not just add their cost savings to their botton line?
-jimbo
1) At time of conception, abort babies that have the disease, or join many babies and pick the best one.
Why restrict it to babies after conception? Why don't we just "abort" every one with the gene living right now and be done with it?
-jimbo
What insurance companies would like to do is to put everyone into a pool of one, i.e., they would have a reliable estimate of how much each individual person is going to cost them. Then they charge a bit more than that, and make money.
At which point, the insurance companies become nothing more than an unnecessary middle man. You could just send the money send it directly to your doctor up front.
-jimbo
Maybe society says "We'll help you out because it's not your fault, but try not to pass those genes on".
So "society" will be deciding who gets to procreate, and who doesn't?
-jimbo
This lowers the rates for the majority of us without too many genetic defects, and allows those with such defects to know considerably earlier and take action. I see it as win-win.
What action are they supposed to take once they have been denied health insurance, unless they're independently wealthy? Maybe they will turn out to be you as genetic screening improves, by the way.
-jimbo
Imagine a small company putting togeter a nice Motorola computer ala IBM, so that duplication would be encouraged and profitable. Imagine also that they used all free ware, so that anyone could develop software for it. Further imagine that they had enough marketing muscle to get the thing noticed and it could be mass produced and cheap. If Apple would form a company to do this, and if they alowed this company to run it's existing codebase, we would indeed be impressed with Apple. As it is, shrug.
That company would also be broke in a week.
-jimbo
He quit drugs, went on to an abusive relationship with a woman (she was the abuser...if I hadn't seen what she was doing with my own eyes I never would have believed it). Then he joined a strict church...and adopted the same "Need" to have it control his life.
Was there something specific about his church you found to be controlling? Or do you just assume anyone active in a church is being brain-washed somehow?
The rest of your post I found very insightful.
-jimbo