Re: transhumanism gets a thrashing

From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 15:28:08 MDT


Extropes,

--- walter.kehowski@gcmail.maricopa.edu wrote:
> Transhuamnism gets a thrashing in
>
>
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-smith092002.asp

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Excerpted from the article is the following
comment/proposal:

> I propose that the
> United States outlaw the genetic manipulation of
> human embryos with
> non-human DNA."

Like unto the carefree dreamy drift in amniotic
tranquility, the author floats serenely within an aura
of beatific cluelessness. If one could identify that
portion of the 'human' genome that is exclusive to
humans, it would be something (ballpark) like 0.1%.
So--HELLO!! Too late, pal!--'human' DNA is already
99.9% 'non-human'.

Ain't it just a cryin' shame how some people hafta
ruin--try to, anyway--the sublime experience of true
belief, with stuff so tawdry as ... ugh!...
reason,...ugh!...logic?

Best, Jeff Davis

"While it is not true that all conservatives are
stupid people, it is nevertheless undeniable that
practically all stupid people are conservative."
                    John Stuart Mill

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