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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (48716)	3/2/2014 2:16:53 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

What about problems that need more than a clinic can provide?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (48716)	3/2/2014 2:20:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Sitting on my tv and watching the couch, I see that the couch potatoes would not last a minute in the red in tooth and claw world of nature programmes in which the natural forces of hunger winnow out any weak members of a species. <Getting a health clinic is progress.> That looks more like entropy than progress. Progress would be telomere adjustment to avoid cancer in the first place. Progress would be genetic engineering and selection to avoid genetic disasters before the child has them inflicted on them. Progress would be using the best genes available instead of random mixtures of muck thrown up by nature with 99.99999% of them being unfit for purpose random mutations. Eugenics is what's needed. Of course not a government-regulated one which the loony lefties like, but the usual one where women choose the lucky bloke from those lined up on offer and too bad for those rejected whose DNA goes back into the recycling bin. Women have been doing an admirable job of it over the millennia. In just 200,000 years, people have gone from a few chimp-like beasts to the splendid specimens we see by the billion. We hardly ever have to lean on our knuckles these days [though sitting is more comfortable than standing too long]. For some strange reason though, women seem to think their work is incomplete as many of them express dissatisfaction with their mates and are constantly looking for better ones. That's odd because the average bloke thinks he is pretty damn awesome. In the meantime, I admit to liking very much to having sickness diagnosis and treatment clinics. They have been literal lifesavers for me over the decades. Unfortunately, they can't do anything about those telomeres. Or, maybe that's fortunate because without telomere shrinkage, there would be a very large crowd and no room for the improved designs. Mqurice