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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (237045)	7/18/2007 9:39:27 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm sure it will be interesting. No doubt. But you are missing a point in your teeth-and-claw analysis, Mq, which I feel compelled to bring up. We are also programmed via DNA to be charitable, take care of the lame and otherwise assist the unfortunate who, unlike me [!], are not blessed with spectacular looks, lots of sex appeal, a terrific physical constitution, high IQ and otherwise superior DNA. And this is because genetic mutations can happen anywhere, at anytime, serendipitously [fine word, that]. Thus, we all carry within us potential though our actual circumstances might not be much of which to be proud. As a race, we therefore need for our survival to maintain as much diverse DNA as possible in order that mutations can take place. Now, not all mutations will be like the one which gave the Ashkenazi superior IQs, but one never knows since mutations are random. Thus, the need to maintain the diversity of DNA, which leads ineluctably to charity and compassion. Any group that denies this impulse is self-selecting for failure, especially if it goes to the other end of the continuum and decides that group x, y or z needs to be destroyed as a race. I can take this argument to headhacking Wahabbis and self-destructing Palestinians, point out that their lack of charity vis-a-vis Israel is ultimately against their tribe's self interest, but I don't think I'd get anywhere and might actually end up holding my bloody and severed head in my lap. It's a lot more complex than simple breeding, something I think women, or some of them, anyway, know in their bones as they are generally much more kind and charitable than we are.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (237045)	7/18/2007 11:18:18 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I always enjoy your free associatiive expositions, Maurice. But Google? Chimpanzees? And you have leaped from ethnicity to race, which are not interchangeable terms. Not that I agree with you that either races or ethnic groups are incapable of learning or thinking and could be called mental midgets. And they certainly aren't so because they can't read. Which is where this all started. And then you go from there to genetic engineering, which has nothing at all to do with ethnicity, does it? And the biological urge to find a strong mate who can protect and provide- why is that racism? Sounds to me like survival instinct. Maybe this will make more sense in the morning after I've had some sleep. Or maybe it won't. And yes, that conference sounds interesting!