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01-02-2003, 09:38 PM | #16 | |
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01-02-2003, 09:40 PM | #17 |
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All this is starting to make me think of The Truman Show.
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01-02-2003, 09:48 PM | #18 | |
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My head hurts just thinking about all the areas in American life this would alter. Fairly solid trends and beliefs would have to change. On the other hand, I don't think it will be stoppable once the procedure is mastered. But the gov't will try. Poindexter will require random DNA samples to put in your file along with everything else.
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01-02-2003, 09:54 PM | #19 |
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C'mon slang...you like conspiracy theories too. Let's see now...
The US government has actually been cloning since the mid 1930s, underground at the University of Chicago. However, the government grew alarmed when Dolly was created. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, the US government hired a close relative of Katherine Harris to pose as a French cult representative to tout a cloned human. Okay...your turn. |
01-02-2003, 11:26 PM | #20 | |
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01-03-2003, 12:28 AM | #21 |
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Somehow i don't think you can or would be able to 'own' a person, but the way companies can own genes does worry me greatly. It's really murky, on one hand companies should be able to profit from their research, on the other hand it's not like they made the gene, is it? It stops other people working with it in some ways.
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01-03-2003, 01:18 AM | #22 |
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That's the thing, though, isn't it? They're not entitled to profit, even though they seem to think they are.
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01-03-2003, 01:59 AM | #23 |
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If they do the research, should they not be allowed to profit from it? Otherwise what is the incentive for any company to do any research? And lets face it, public funding for research is as rare as hens teeth, not matter what you think of it.
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01-03-2003, 02:32 AM | #24 |
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Of course they should be allowed to profit. But they think their right to profit is so inherently important that they should get to step on other people's rights. In this case, their right to profit is so important that they're suffocating all genetic research except their own.
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01-03-2003, 02:36 AM | #25 |
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Hmm.. now that I read that again, I don't know why I worded that that way. I ended up saying something that I didn't even intend to say!
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01-03-2003, 02:59 AM | #26 |
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This is the thing, how do you draw that boundry.
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01-03-2003, 12:30 PM | #27 | |
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Hubris Boy casts a baleful gaze in the direction of ... certain other inhabitants of this forum.** Some people could benefit from this example. **Interesting to note that Hubris Boy intentionally omitted the honorific "Dwellar" when referring to these people. |
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01-03-2003, 12:43 PM | #28 |
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My completely unscientific position is that the companies that design the babies wil try to control them in some way, and it will lead to a cycle of social unrest.
That, or some guy will try to put political positions into the mix, and we won't need liberal education or media anymore. *Note*: I think I've watched too many bad sci-fi movies.
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01-03-2003, 02:26 PM | #29 | |
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Here is an interesting (I think) exhibition created to spur civic discussion about contemporary biology. It includes our old pal Eduardo Kac. The transgenic stuff is interesting, and to imagine a transgenic being that is partially human. Would or could it be our equal or superior? A new speciesism to replace racism? |
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01-04-2003, 01:11 AM | #30 | |
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<blockquote>we don't say everything that we could so that we can say later oh, you misunderstood i hold my cards up close to my chest i say what i have to and i hold back the rest </blockquote> Mwahahahah.. |
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