breeding for beauty/intelligence

[joanna bujes]

At 05:42 PM 02/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't really see why people think a world populated by persons
>intelligent, altruistic, and beautiful to the nth degree would be such a
>terrible place.  Sure, we ought to be skeptical of the means, but the ends
>would be unquestionably good (if good is taken to be a meaningful term).
>
>- -- Luke

Oh. Have they discovered a gene for altruism? But seriously folks. The 
problem with this is that it is better to be fully human than it is to be 
an object. Even an intelligent, beautiful object. Life is not an instance 
of shopping. That's all.

Breed roses!

Joanna