If you dont believe in science and evolution please leave now, this post is not for you.
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What we now know is humans began evolving at the time of the dinosaurs. Millions of years of slight genetic mutations shifting over and over and over again to bring us to where we are now. There are a few things we have to thank for this. This main thing is survival of the fittest. This works alongside evolution by the following method:
2 tribes of proto-humans (ooga booga tribe and booga ooga tribe).
1 tribe starts evolving with longer legs.
1 tribe starts evolving with stronger arms.
*insert Startrek music here where Spock and Kirk fight on Vulcan, and a large group of fighing neanderthals*
stronger arm tribe wins.
The genetic code that would have continued with the long legged tribe is now destroyed, and the strong armed genetic code continues. The concept is that the idea behind longer legs isn't as advantageous as having stronger arms.
Now what ended up happening later on is physical characteristics were beaten by the mental part of the body... or, the brain. Survival of the fittest no longer means physically strong, but mentally too. And this strength is actually becoming a genetic weakness.
With intelligence we gave birth to individual thought, love, hate, anger, remorse, pity.
With these we create laws, morality, and ethics.
And with these we gave birth to Survival of the weak.
Now try to keep in perspective, this is all about genetics, evolution, and the strengthening of the human race. I'm not being mean, this isn't hateful, and there are no racist undertones here.
Child born. Child has downsyndrome. (testing now can detect this in the first trimester, giving the parents the option of aborting or not). What to do with child? Does this child deserve to be love and nurtured? Be a part of a family, a life, a home. Most definitely. But their genetic structure is compromised, and by default, there will typically be a genetic proneness to the mother or the father.
"But Kris, are you saying we should sterilize new borns because of genetics defects?"
Yes I am. Im not going to sugar coat it. I'm not going to pretend this isn't as bad as it sounds either. It's a cold thought, but one that has meaning, and purpose.
Now keep in mind also, i'm not saying to steralize children that have minor issues, most people do. But serious genetic abnormalities should not be allowed to continue.
Why would we want to give onto our children major genetic risks, so that they can continue to pass it on, and so on, and so forth.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you want to look at it) we allow this to continue. Left unchecked it risks becoming so wide spread that it will affect the entire polulace. Most people dont see the risks yet because of the same reason that most people didn't see the risks about the environment at first.
How can you polute the air? It's Air! There's way too much air to be able to polute it all. 50-70-100 years later now look at us. People see the polution in the air, the water, even the earth. This is the same basic thing. If wont make a difference, there's too many people. Then in one hundred years where 1 of every 2 people are both with genetic dispositions people will see how widespread this is capable of becoming. (realistically speaking we're probably talking a thousand years, but i'm not totally sure).
My viewpoint is actually shared with quite a few people, and not even necessarily bad people either. We've even see entire civilizations share a much harsher version of this. The Spartans would sterilize your child... they would take your baby from your womb. The mother would bathe the child in wine. If it didn't die from that the child was inspected. If it was "puny or deformed" they would throw it into the chasm of Mount Taygetos. Hell i'm just saying make it so they dont spread their defective genetics.
Personally, I feel if something simular to this isn't created soon, the long term consequences of the human race will be disasterous.
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Stimulating subject matter. I am friends with one individual who falls under the "down syndrome" categorization, for the time being, I will stow away my emotional knee jerk response to any suggestion his life is not worth living and put forth some ideas not related to this. (Of course, he is glad to be alive like most of us, happy to enjoy human rights, and loves and is loved by his friends and family.. but for now, lets leave this be.. also, he is not looking to start a family, and his parents, one a talented artist, the other a successful engineer, have other successful and "normal" children.. but, as I promised, I will set this aside, and not flame or be flamed).
ReplyDeleteI might suggest that evolution of quantum size (like notable frontal lobe development, or legs becoming wings etc) may be contingent on what might be deemed an "abnormality" within the scope of a lifetime of observation within one generation of recombination. Selective mating with societal repulsion towards webbed feet, to be trite, may reduce the development of more amphibious humans. But we can make up our minds individually, or as a group, as to what causes, individuals or ideals we wish to promote. If "evolution" is measured solely by "ability to survive harsh conditions" then the cockroach may be deemed more evolved than the rose, yet, this is a matter of contemporary hermeneutics, by this I would mean "what is the acid test of determining what is more highly evolved?"
In life we see a balance. In breath and out breath. Fight and flight. Turn, turn, turn. And even the most robust, stoic, empirical scientist would not be around today without having had not his mother chewed his food for him before he had teeth and clothed his hairless body to keep him from freezing. This is a warmth and compassion on which we all are dependent upon, the love of a mother.
The left side of the brain is largely connected with reason, and the right side of the brain, with creativity. We evolved this way. Our survival depends upon both compassion and wisdom. Everything has a beginning and an end. All is transient. Unless time is a dimension that can be revisited. Learning seems to be contingent on review of what works and what doesn't.. and this can be seen as a spiral.
I think a government body enforcing censorship of the genetic alphabet might stymy what is worth protecting. "If there will be an answer, let it be".
- for some reason Garret used my computer last, but as you might guess by my need to use polysyllabic words for my own enjoyment, this is actually Franky D.