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But our species evolved to be social, with all the tensions that implies. A species of hermits happy to live in synthetic cocoons would hardly be Man. Killing the patient doesn…
05 Jan 2006, 12:52
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Attitudes like yours go some way towards explaining why non-religious intelligent conservatives increasingly tend to find themselves allied with religion-oriented groupings. Evo…
03 Jan 2006, 11:02
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Until the Gregorian reforms of the late eleventh century, including the period I assume the OP to refer to, celibacy rules were largely ignored. - Gerry Quinn…
02 Jan 2006, 12:20
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Not really. Our self-interest and our socialisation will always be at war, so the flaw is inescapable. - Gerry Quinn…
02 Jan 2006, 12:14
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Perceived religious morality. I have not heard of the Church exhorting intellectuals to use contraception! Though I suspect that the idea of cloning an intellectual master race …
01 Jan 2006, 17:34
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Even if that is why (and I don't know that it was necessarily the reason), having a flaw that cannot be cured does not prove that one cannot at least improve! [And you don't hav…
31 Dec 2005, 14:06
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Sounds like a lot to read into a story involving clones that don't improve. The second part features humans who disimprove (in most ways anyway, though they develop psychic pow…
29 Dec 2005, 14:55
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