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Old 2006-01-03, 04:10   Link #179
Anh_Minh
I disagree with you all.
 
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Originally Posted by Moon Eclipse
Science and research, as Gil had said in his universe wide commercial. "After years of study the top scientist of PLANT have come up with... the Destiny Plan

Everything's define by the system. I think we've all become clear about this.
Yeah, right. And - as you've already been asked - how did they decide what genes fit with what job? How good of scientists can they be if they didn't even test their theories? (It's like coming up with a new molecules and injecting it in everyone's bloodstream without even trying it on animals first. Will it make us immune to HIV? Will it kill us all? Who knows?)

And the right genes give you an edge, true - but I'm more interested in the end result. What kind of person do you get? It's ridiculous to privilege genotype over phenotype. And that's what Dully, with his immediate, total implementation of the Destiny Plan, was doing. Not only that - even a generation later, how do you get a good enough control over people to make them into what their genes tell you they ought to be?
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