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Message no. 1
From: Gossamer <kajohnson@*******.TEC.WI.US>
Subject: Re: [OT] Troll's intelligence [Eugenics]
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 15:09:11 -0600
> > You'd make a good eugenicist if you believe that. They're
> > descended from humanity and have the same number of
> > chromosomes and the same number of bases in their
> > genetic structure..... can't see any basis for a smaller
> > gene pool.
>
> Now wait a damn minute here. We're here discussing a fucking
> GAME !!!!! I'm trying to make up a theory that sounds plausible

Getting a bit testy about being called an eugenicist, aren't you?
It's like you consider that a bad thing. It boggles my mind when
people feel so negatively about a function of science. What's
wrong with being one of those guys anyway? Do you object
to the whole notion of selective breeding, or is it the extreme
view of uber-guys that makes you upset? I, being one of
these eugenics proponent people, find it odd that some
folks go way off the deep end in reaction to it... Would
someone want to comment on that from an SR perspective?
Is it the elves fault again? And what's up with all that
VITAS speculation, we know the elves did it don't we?

> sorry to swear , but that really scorched my socks

Try getting asbestos socks... works for me.
See, I'm wearing mine now >:-o

Gossamer
Message no. 2
From: "MARTIN E. GOTTHARD" <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: [OT] Troll's intelligence [Eugenics]
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 14:50:46 +1000
> > > You'd make a good eugenicist if you believe that. They're
> > > descended from humanity and have the same number of
> > > chromosomes and the same number of bases in their
> > > genetic structure..... can't see any basis for a smaller
> > > gene pool.
> >
> > Now wait a damn minute here. We're here discussing a fucking
> > GAME !!!!! I'm trying to make up a theory that sounds plausible
>
> Getting a bit testy about being called an eugenicist, aren't you?
> It's like you consider that a bad thing. It boggles my mind when
> people feel so negatively about a function of science. What's
> wrong with being one of those guys anyway? Do you object
> to the whole notion of selective breeding, or is it the extreme
> view of uber-guys that makes you upset? I, being one of
> these eugenics proponent people, find it odd that some
> folks go way off the deep end in reaction to it... Would
> someone want to comment on that from an SR perspective?
> Is it the elves fault again? And what's up with all that
> VITAS speculation, we know the elves did it don't we?
>
Thankyou for making that reply for me.....I didn't feel up to getting
into another argument. Perhaps my tone came across kind of wrong.

We've been practicing Eugenics on animals for about as long as we've been
domesticating them.... Applying those concepts to humans seems to rile a
lot of people, even though we practise a version of it unconciously in
our society..

In any case, I think it's a bit wrong to assume that Trolls and Orks have
a 'narrower' gene pool just because they are a 'younger' race.... What
does 'younger' mean anyway?


> > sorry to swear , but that really scorched my socks
>
> Try getting asbestos socks... works for me.
> See, I'm wearing mine now >:-o
>
*grin*

Jeez; I even use a flamethrower when I don't mean it.

Bleach

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