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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (14889)	9/24/2002 10:56:41 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 93284

It's a bad idea because it removes the randomness from human evolution. Somebody will surely create a race of service or food humans like that described by H. G. Wells. I don't want somebody putting jellyfish genes in me so I glow in the dark either. Have you ever seen the tv movie "Dr. Cook's Garden?" Bing Crosby played a doctor in a small town who slowly weeded out the bad guys in town. It sounded like a good idea until you got to the downside. Another good one is "The Island of Doctor Moreau." I'm afraid it was very prophetic. I know a bit about genetics because it's a requirement of being a forester. I spent the better part of my career trying to genetically improve the forests that I dealt with. So I'm not unalterably opposed to genetic modification. I'm just opposed to a such a program applied to people, especially without their knowledge and consent. The worst idea of all is cloning humans. I know from forestry that you can get a very nice stand of trees all with the same genotype, growing like a bat out of hell until the right bug comes along. Then they just fall to pieces. Somebody I corresponded with told me that if I cloned my spotted dog the clone would have the same genotype and the same colors, but not the exact same spot configuration. Do you work in genetic research? It's a fascinating field, I'm sure.