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Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jan-04-2008 19:33:

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Originally posted by st3nc
theres got to be an ideal height for humans on Earth, given our level of gravity...

Shorter is better, for the most part. Fewer back problems.

Of course, there are other concerns in addition to health -- namely, that tall men are often found more attractive by women, more intimidating to other men, and more likely to be promoted at jobs.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jan-04-2008 20:15:

What if some parent thought that obesity was beautiful and genetically engineered their child to be incredibly fat?

Posted by Silky Johnson on Jan-04-2008 20:31:

You know who else was into genetic engineering of humans? HITLER.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jan-04-2008 20:39:

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Originally posted by jennypie
You know who else was into genetic engineering of humans? HITLER.

I hear that he was also fond of dogs and German art.

Posted by Silky Johnson on Jan-04-2008 20:44:

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I hear that he was also fond of dogs and German art.

He was a good person.

Posted by echosystm on Jan-04-2008 20:44:

Genetic engineering must happen.

Humans are not meant to live as long as we do today. People with many illnesses or disorders are now living full lives and breeding. Society has turned "survival of the fittest" on it's head. The result is one big fucked up gene pool. Without genetic engineering, in a few generations we will be a bunch of mutants.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jan-04-2008 20:52:

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Originally posted by echosystm
Humans are not meant to live as long as we do today.

"Meant" by whom?

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People with many illnesses or disorders are now living full lives and breeding.

And this is bad because...?

What seems to be implicit here is the idea that most illnesses are genetic, and perhaps also the idea that genetic disorders cannot be cured. But both of those ideas are false.

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Society has turned "survival of the fittest" on it's head.

"Fitness" is a context-sensitive term. It refers to the physical traits that allow an organism to survive under a given set of circumstances. When those circumstances change, as they have in the past ten thousand years of human history, then the traits that constitute "fitness" will change as well. We no longer live as nomads on the savanna, so applying the fitness criteria that worked in that circumstance makes about as much sense as complaining that penguins are "weak" because they can't survive in the Sahara.

Posted by guerra-monstru on Jan-04-2008 22:16:

So has anyone ever heard about Stalin trying to engineer Ape warriors?

Posted by Silky Johnson on Jan-04-2008 22:21:

Pfft, yes. N00b.

Posted by UWM on Jan-04-2008 22:24:

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Originally posted by guerra-monstru
So has anyone ever heard about Stalin trying to engineer Ape warriors?

I am fighting the urge to make a very inappropriate post here.

Posted by Silky Johnson on Jan-04-2008 22:24:

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Originally posted by UWM
I am fighting the urge to make a very inappropriate post here.

You've changed, man.

*shakes head*

Posted by Zoso on Jan-04-2008 22:42:

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Originally posted by jennypie
You've changed, man.

*shakes head*

No....YOU'VE CHANGED. *spins on heel and walks away angrily*

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