[thechat] Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer

[Morgan Kelsey]

> the aardvark sayeth:
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> that description also doesn't meet my "idiot" qualification... you're
> implying that *i* would have shuffled his embryo into the unworthy
> stack, when that's not right...if you can fix that stuff, fix it...
> ever see Gattacca? kinda like that, but clearly without the bizarre
> genetic classes they've instituted...
>

i didn't mean to imply *you* would....just that the process of screening
leads to rubber-stamping rejects, which i don't think could ever be an
exact science.

ever "fix" someone else's code? invariably....something *else* usually
breaks, don't it?
my student's handicaps may be contributing to his talents. maybe he
doesn't want anyone to fix him?

i'm not against gene research, or even building people. but i don't think
we should mess with what's coming out naturally. if people want to go the
"grow-yer-own" method, they should let them--but i bet we end up with a
buncha weirdo ken-doll guys running around. only they wouldn't be smooth
under there....


nagrom