Re: It's better for peculiar people never to have lived, I guess

From: Jonathan Standley (standley@rcn.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 06:31:34 MST


 A poster on wta-talk said yesterday he would go
> ahead with making a human version of Doogie mice. He thought higher
> chronical pain sensitivity would be a tolerable tradeoff to the
> (undemonstrated in people) somewhat higher smarts. What?
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That was me; I guess the best way to explain my point of view is if the
option was available to my parents, I would be happy if they had chosen it
for me.

You're right of course about the embryo screening to make sure there's no
damage - but I thought this technology already existed and has been used to
screen out stuff like CF?



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