Re: gender apartheid and transhumanists

my inner geek (geek@ifeden.com)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:35:35 +0800

Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote:

> It is not peoples DNA, it is how you treat them.
>
> People deserve to be treated equally/fairly.

Tell that to the life insurance companies who will be gene sequencing applicants prior to issuing policies. Remember that thing called a "pre-existing condition"? How about a genetic predisposition for cancer, depression, epilepsy? Welcome to GATTACA.

All this technology, available "early next year".

See the following:

http://www.euro.promega.com/geneticidproc/ussymp6proc/niezgod.htm

http://www.euro.promega.com/geneticidentity/giinnov.html



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