> Maybe we could start on the offspring with a program of feeding them well,
> keeping them warm, encouraging them and not beating them or locking them up.
> Once we've gotten the hang of that, then we can go on to more advanced stuff
> like health care and education.
OK, and? (Although I'm tempted to add that genetic engineering will probably at some point in the not-so-distant future provide an inexpensive means to avoiding the need for many health services that are currently necessary to prolong the lives of many.)
> By then we'll be old and they won't need or
> heed our dumb ideas
Hightly speculative, yes, dumb, no.
> about genetically engineering offspring to be pleasant,
> flat-assed blondes
Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, but genetic engineering might allow us to one day reshape that eye such that it perceives the human body as beautiful regardless of its particular form.
>that test well.
What seperates Forrest Gump from Joe Sixpack and Joe Sixpack from the likes of Da Vinci, Hume, and Einstein isn't merely some irrelevant capacity to do well on tests.
-- Luke
> Jenny Brown
>