Re: a new thread

From: Ian Field (field_ian@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 11:57:07 MDT


I absolutely agree!

----- Original Message -----
  From: John Clark
  To: extropians@extropy.com
  Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 10:09 AM
  Subject: Re: a new thread

>Ryan:
>what happens if and when everybody can afford it?
>Are we all going to optimize our offspring's
>genetic predispositions towards some arbitrarily-chosen
>'superior quality set'? There goes the genetic diversity
>of the human race

  There is no objective best human being, everybody will have there own ideas about
  what makes the perfect baby so diversity would be astronomically greater than today.
  It may have its flaws but genetic engineering and intelligent choice certainly beats
  random mutation and natural selection.

            John K Clark jonkc@att.net



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