Posted on 11/21/2005 7:56:08 PM PST by NZerFromHK
Ping!
In a two child family society, there is no one to look after grandma (therein lies, I think, the fundamental idiocy of libertarianism which thinks you can have a small government without a traditional religious culture creating big families that can nurture each other through sickness and old age). No one to visit her, no one to clean her diapers. Robotics is about that too.
Indeed, in a small family culture it is easy to end up lonely. To become the single woman at 45 alone with her cat, etc.
Nietzsche's warning about the death of God leading to the death of humanity is very real. Only the Last Men find such a future worth living.
Cloned Canadians ~ now that's a nightmare!
There IS another potential solution for countries with birth rates below 2 per female: Convert the nation to the LSD church (Mormanism) and use modern science to change the basic sex ratio from the normal 1 - 1 to something like 1 - 8 or 1 - 10. At that rate, 1.2 or 1.3 children per female would be more than enough to replenish the population.
"That would seem to be in defiance of what we used quaintly to call "the facts of life." But who cares about biology? As Hester Lessard, the eminently eminent law professor at the University of Victoria, has argued, "biological" concepts of parenthood are "an increasingly fictional creation narrative" that "legitimates a heterosexual view of the family." And we wouldn't want that, would we? Which is why earlier this year the Province of Ontario passed Bill 171 abolishing the ords "husband," "wife," "widow," "widower," "man" and "woman" from its laws--and not just the words but the very concept of gender."
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Tomorrow's Brave New World. Insanity!
Government and Courts ABOLISH WORDS, THE VERY CONCEPTS?
bttt
Chimps, gorillas and orangutans, genetically engineered to make them smart enough to understand commands. Especially the word, "No!"
They'll protect us from the clones, too.
And, naturally, since each man would be required to provide such prodigious... service... along these lines, the women would have to be chosen for their sexual characteristics which would have to be of a high stimulating nature.
If I made a clone of myself, I wouldn't have my clone do mundane things, like rake the leaves, or wash my (our?) car. Instead- I'd fight my clones to the death, and the strongest and wiliest of us would become me.
Who can say I haven't done this already?
Hmm?
Damn. Beat me to it.
"A society with superabundance of such giants, if it is managed properly, might be able to progress beyond our wildest dreams"
might as well mass suicide now then.......how do you manage a michael angelo?...Jefferson...Churchill...Mozart...ummm, Muhammed Ali?....can't micro-manage Genius.
"Not just billionaire kooks, but also the likes of Barrie and Tony, a couple from Chelmsford in southern England. They'd been trying for a baby for some time, but nothing seemed to work. Then it occurred to them this might be because they're both men."
LOL
Transhumanism (what Steyn refers to as GRIN) should be embraced, not shunned. I do not think we're going to grow worker-clones in a laboratory to support an aging populace.
Steyn's argument is akin to saying that medical technology should never have progressed pass the 40s, because who knows what maliciousness will come of it?
ping
Sounds like you did too much LDS as a youngster.
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