Chinese social engineering has already created a problem. By restricting families to one child (most families opted for a boy even if that meant killing girl babies) they are now faced with a glut of marriage age men and a serious deficit of marriage age women. I wonder how that is going to work out for them.
~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@...> wrote: > > > The slippery slope is my problem too, Tracey. I could see the Chinese > engineering more boy births and fewer girl births, and someone might want to > go the way of the Sauron supermen from "The Mote In God's Eye" (think the > Augments from "Enterprise", only meaner and less schemey). > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody > hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: tdli...@... > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:22:42 -0800 > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Question: Would you modify your kid's genes? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > See, I have some genetic , incurable crap too. I think I would > want that out to. However, I believe it is likely a slippery slope > > > > > > > > From: > scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of > Martin > Baxter > > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:23 PM > > To: SciFiNoir2 > > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Question: Would you modify your kid's genes? > > > > > > > > > > > > In a word, no, not even if it meant ridding them of the genetic combo that > gave > me what I've got. Though an improvement on my genes would be an incalculable > gain for Mankind... > > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To: > scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > > From: hellomahog...@... > > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:17:11 -0800 > > Subject: [scifinoir2] Question: Would you modify your kid's genes? > > > > > > > > > > > > Very soon the option of gene manipulation > may come available. There are already methods that lean in that direction. Our > near future may turn into a world that is similar to the movie Gattica. > > > > If the option became available do you think that if this option were available > would you take that step to give your child the best advantages that he or she > can have? > > > > Another question. Do you think that this kind of gene manipulation weaken the > gene pool? > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > Hotmail: > Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. Sign up > now. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390709/direct/01/ >
