[Osx-nutters] Denial

[mmalc crawford]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Stefano Mori wrote:

> And when they started forecasting this stuff back in the 20s or
> thereabouts, influential thinkers were taken in by it and it was
> seriously considered. They proposed selective breeding to stop us all
> become stupid. As we know, eventually it became incorporated by the
> Nazis.
> It's a brilliant and shocking example of scientific theories with
> implications for the greater good leading to terrible damage.
>
Umm, isn't that what I just said ("But one of the main reasons this  
will be a contentious issue is because of the spectre of words like  
eugenics")?

But you're mixing ethics, societal taboos, and science (not to suggest  
that science shouldn't be sensitive to the others).  Work with  
numerous other species (and genera and kingdoms) already shows that  
selective breeding largely works...

mmalc