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Kapkao
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ConLang Wrote:
If we abolish social stratification, gene modification won't matter.  

Of course we should abolish patenting genes.  Just more ways intellectual property is shunted away from individuals and over to corporations.


03-20-2012 12:59 AM
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Nasa Shill



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You are missing the point.  Failure to set a proper tone in the matter of eugenics means your extinction and mine. Dying on cue is not my idea of bettering the human race.


Please visit my call for a memorial to the victims of eugenics:

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthre...?tid=23907

and also my call for an alternative to Autism Speaks:

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthre...?tid=23955

And, if you have time, also my science fiction story about Sasquatch and his struggle to remain free.  It combines "monster fiction" with philosophy and questions about how humans came to be:

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthre...#pid477606
04-02-2012 09:34 PM
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d_olson27 Wrote:
It's always been about social class. Race just happens to be a convenient justification, because there's a visible difference. It keeps scared, gullible people from realizing what it's really about and rising up against their oppressors.


When I was living in Vermont a book called Breeding Better Vermonters was released about the eugenics programs in that state in the 1930s, but they were in other states too. In Vermont, much of it was against the Abenaki people.  They protected themselves by blending. Then when it was safe to seek tribal recognition, they had a hard time doing the paper chase, but finally succeeded.

Now, the eugenics movement targets disabilities. Trisomy 21 and other syndromes that have genetic markers have been easy targets. Autism Speaks proudly funneled a lot of money and scouted good researchers to find a genetic marker for autism, but has been unsuccessful so far. It is my understanding that they have backed off, but I am not part of the inner circle.


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05-07-2012 06:45 AM
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