tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post6311533873874391320..comments2024-03-28T07:08:58.221-04:00Comments on Todd Seavey: Fearing Eugenics, Resisting SociobiologyTodd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-12561018507766868212009-02-04T10:09:00.000-05:002009-02-04T10:09:00.000-05:00And who among us would not enjoy becoming Mister T...And who among us would not enjoy becoming Mister Tawky Tawny, the magical talking tiger who’s friends with Captain Marvel? <br><br><a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Tawky%20Tawny%201.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Tawky%20Tawny%201.jpg</a>Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-2074652505085639582009-02-04T10:07:00.000-05:002009-02-04T10:07:00.000-05:00We can be slaves — or we can be Lycans! Possibly ...We can be slaves — or we can be Lycans! Possibly even lichens. <br><br>(And with very little cybernetic enhancement, we can become people smart enough not to see the Underworld prequel.)Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-36239955697514417442009-02-04T08:38:00.000-05:002009-02-04T08:38:00.000-05:00Okay, Todd, I’ll bite: what species are you longin...Okay, Todd, I’ll bite: what species are you longing to become?Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-39397080006724542732009-02-03T11:50:00.000-05:002009-02-03T11:50:00.000-05:00Without getting sidetracked into an abortion debat...Without getting sidetracked into an abortion debate (something I promise _never_ to devote an entire month of blogging to, gentle readers), I will just say that I am increasingly morally-wary of abortion as gestation progresses but do not think that genetic concerns influencing people’s decisions in the early-gestation phase when abortions may (arguably) acceptably occur makes abortion any _more_ troubling. Beats flipping a coin. <br><br>Dating/mating is also largely a function of rendering genetic judgments, obviously, and that doesn’t seem to bother anyone. <br><br>Long term, I hope genetic engineering — even to the point of enabling us to become completely different species — and even robotics employing transplanted consciousnesses will render the more clumsy business of saying yea or nay to whole fetuses obsolete (by, for instance, making it possible to turn mentally retarded people into functional geniuses instead of having to talk about whether to “weed them out of the gene pool” in some fashion). <br><br>(There, I’m sure I can’t have said anything in three such short paragraphs that will offend anyone.)Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-18869721249463598902009-02-03T11:35:00.000-05:002009-02-03T11:35:00.000-05:00well, gould did graduate from antioch college, whi...well, gould did graduate from antioch college, which should account for something.<br><br>how do you feel about the <i>gattaca</i>-like trend toward prenatal testing for genetic abnormalities that we’re seeing today? “first eliminate cholera, then genetic disease” is a slogan i could possibly get behind. parents should be able to choose the children they wish to raise, within the bounds of science. (i’m also not overly upset about gender-preference abortion, but that’s a discussion for another time.)jennyhttp://laloca.org/noreply@blogger.com