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To: jbe who wrote (50283)	8/9/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

>I presume you have read Brave New World. Once you have some entity -- let us say, the state -- in the business of authorizing the number of offspring you may have, what's to prevent it from deciding against letting you define its characteristics the way you want? < I have read it (long ago!) and you underscore one of the really thorny issues of being human. We don't have a way to regulate fertility - one that isn't corruptible. I can't think of one with humans in the loop. And yet we must have a way. Continued breeding without plan or limit should only be contenanced by those who are ready to embrace the fact that Man adapts, but people don't. The consequence WILL be population control through economic disaster. I would rather risk Frankenstein than know Easter Island writ large.