<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">Oh I will slam that one into the next county and it will still be climbing when it gets there.<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> OK - now can we return to the question that started this?  From Anders post I assume he thinks that any good done by genetic meddling is OK.  Is that it?  When you become aware of what was done to you by the gengineers you are just thankful because they created you as good as you could be with the genes you were given and those that they reprogrammed, were donated by someone else and so on, are OK too?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">I remember from Heinlein's Friday ("My mother was a test tube") that being a hybrid of sorts and not 'natural' was looked down on.  You were a second class citizen.  Was Heinlein simply wrong about people's reactions to not being 'natural'?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">bill w</span></p></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:29 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b>On Behalf Of </b>spike<span class=""><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] circumcision again<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div></div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>>…</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anders<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] circumcision again<u></u><u></u></span></p></span><div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>>…<span style="color:#222222"> Circumcision is something that does not provide a good except for a fairly narrow range of life projects.  anders</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…I am not an expert on these matters, but it isn’t the least bit clear to me that circumcision provides *<b>any</b>* advantage in any range of life projects, narrow or broad.  On the contrary, I can see at least one disadvantage.  …<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Shame on me, spike, oh shame, me lad.  At least one disadvantage, I said.  ONE disadvantage, said I!  ONE!  Shame on me.  I am guilty of the same ethical and moral crime that has perpetuated this barbaric practice for millennia: completely disregarding the excruciating pain of the unwilling victim.  SPIKE!  How in the goddam hell did you not offer THAT one FIRST, with the other bit second if at all?  Spike my son, you know better than that, sheesh, I taught me better than that.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">OK, now that I have started out my Wednesday giving myself a well-deserved ass chewing.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Anyone who wishes to return that serve, it’s your turn.  spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Oh I will slam that one into the next county and it will still be climbing when it gets there.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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