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To: buccaneer81

“Right is right and wrong is wrong. These “scientists” are just trying to justify adultery. “

How do you apply this historically in societies with different marriage/sexual values than 20th century American society? Right today hasn’t always been right.

I personally suspect any number of behaviors have some genetic footprint, especially those that would impact survival/ability to reproduce, and you can bet the topic of the study is directly tied to that.


16 posted on 09/02/2008 8:23:58 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: WoofDog123

I do wonder about the moral implications of this line of thinking. If we can identify people who are born with “serial-rapist genes” or “mass-murderer genes”, can we go ahead and imprison them to prevent harm to the citizenry? Or do we have to wait for the inevitable tragedy?

Also, can we just go ahead and genetically engineer all the undesirable traits out of everyone? Who gets to decide the undesirable traits? Always fun to throw out questions like this.


19 posted on 09/02/2008 8:56:23 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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