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Old December 3rd 05, 04:04 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default Challenging Silouen


Charles D. Bohne wrote:
On 2 Dec 2005 16:08:15 -0800, "Double-A" wrote:

I fear that the next Third Reich will have the tools to actually create
a super race!


Define "super race"! There are no "good genes" vs. "bad genes" -
one can never know which genes may further survival under changing
conditions.
C.


Yep Charles, and as with Double-A, exactly. ...

Nothing wrong with Eugenics in principle ... horsebreeding. ....
Heck, we are genetically and physiologically programmed to selectively
choose out mates. ... The 'wild type' stranger can be very attractive,
for example. ... or detractive, possibly.

We horsebreed amongst ourselves anyhoooo whether we realize or admit it
.. or don't.

Eugenics is roughly being overt and explicit about such concerns.

The problem with selective breeding to improve things ... isn't that
it's good or evil. ... It's that we are ignorant about the outcome.
.... That we fool and risk and harm ourselves by imagining that it were
otherwise.

You really have pointed to the crux.