[Osx-nutters] Denial

[Stefano Mori]

On 2007-Aug-17, at 01:12, mmalc crawford wrote:

> 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")?

Yes you did and I just wanted to spell it out for the sake of making  
the point that, the science was used in damaging ways.


> 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...

The global warming debate also becomes about ethics, so there's still  
a good parallel.

Stefano