From: S.J. Van Sickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 16:28:00 MST
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:
> Genetic engineering might be able to maximize our potential as human beings.
> Consider an ant, it can lift thirty times its weight, no human can do that, and
> probably no genetically modified human could.
No, but it is not unreasonable to believe that a gentically modified human
could be as strong as a chimpanzee...well outside the "normal" human
limits.
Of course, if the differences between the "valids" and the "invalids" were
that stark, our hero never would have had a chance of faking his way
through, implying that the differences were within human norms, and the
prejudice more social than physical.
steve
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