[ExI] circumcision again

[William Flynn Wallace]

Oh I will slam that one into the next county and it will still be climbing
when it gets there.



spike

 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?


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'?


bill w

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:29 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> >>… Circumcision is something that does not provide a good except for a
> fairly narrow range of life projects.  anders
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> >…I am not an expert on these matters, but it isn’t the least bit clear to
> me that circumcision provides **any** advantage in any range of life
> projects, narrow or broad.  On the contrary, I can see at least one
> disadvantage.  …
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> 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.
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> OK, now that I have started out my Wednesday giving myself a well-deserved
> ass chewing.
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> >…Anyone who wishes to return that serve, it’s your turn.  spike
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