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Genetically engineered caste system?
Oh yes! Genetically engineer each person for their place. 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
Genetically engineering people is a terrible idea. 37%  37%  [ 7 ]
I don't know what to think 11%  11%  [ 2 ]
I would want to genetically engineer all people to be about the same 11%  11%  [ 2 ]
I would want to genetically engineer all people to be like AG 21%  21%  [ 4 ]
Let me see the results. 16%  16%  [ 3 ]
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04 Mar 2009, 9:49 am

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Hardly, religion has absolutely no scientific basis . You obviously know very little about Marxism, Socialism and Communism.

You mean Marxism does? It was developed using a methodology we have rejected hundreds of years ago, it is unfalsifiable, it is continually rescued for the name of Marx, and even then some people have still rejected the idea to become Post-Marxian.



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04 Mar 2009, 9:59 am

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But the glory of humanity is the cross insemination of ideas and capabilities to fertilize new directions. Any prescribed categorization of humanity violates this great human potential and stunts or destroys the wide open unpredictable modifications of people and societies, a stunting characteristic of totalitarian societies and religions. If this stunting were to become genetic it would be a disaster for humanity where creativity must remain unpredictable to maintain its dynamics.

So... you are a libertarian transhumanist, who wants genetic alterations to become more and more variate, so that way more new directions are created? Even perhaps cat-people?

Oooh parahumans. I've never understood why people are so averse to them.


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Actually there are a couple of really interesting parahuman themed visualizations out there. One of the most interesting is the "Justifiers" RPG that postulated parahumans being developed specifically for non-terrestrial exploration. The game revolves around these same parahumans in their attempts to buy their way out of servitude to the exploratory company that "owns" them as created beings.

There is also the collected worlds of Steve Gallacci where an entire parahuman mixed-species intentional planetary settlement was created by humans for an unknown purpose before the humans mysteriously dissappeared (though a dead one is found in a hulled space ship in one of the story arcs, leading to some answers to why there are so many variant species who all share an obviously tweaked genetic base code...)


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04 Mar 2009, 10:47 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
DentArthurDent wrote:
Hardly, religion has absolutely no scientific basis . You obviously know very little about Marxism, Socialism and Communism.

You mean Marxism does? It was developed using a methodology we have rejected hundreds of years ago, it is unfalsifiable, it is continually rescued for the name of Marx, and even then some people have still rejected the idea to become Post-Marxian.


Anything based on something that even resembles the Hegelian Dialectic is D.O.A. Wrong right out of the box. Hegel and Mark published nonsense and gullible people who could not stand the thought of the smart and ambitious having more than they had, fell for it. The race goes to the fasted runner who worked the hardest and the best to achieve the victory. Winners win and Losers lose.

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04 Mar 2009, 10:53 am

ruveyn wrote:
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
DentArthurDent wrote:
Hardly, religion has absolutely no scientific basis . You obviously know very little about Marxism, Socialism and Communism.

You mean Marxism does? It was developed using a methodology we have rejected hundreds of years ago, it is unfalsifiable, it is continually rescued for the name of Marx, and even then some people have still rejected the idea to become Post-Marxian.


Anything based on something that even resembles the Hegelian Dialectic is D.O.A. Wrong right out of the box. Hegel and Mark published nonsense and gullible people who could not stand the thought of the smart and ambitious having more than they had, fell for it. The race goes to the fasted runner who worked the hardest and the best to achieve the victory. Winners win and Losers lose.

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Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you — what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitos. L. Neil Smith


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04 Mar 2009, 11:35 am

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Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you — what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitos. L. Neil Smith


Quite so! Socialism is the religion of losers.

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04 Mar 2009, 12:32 pm

ruveyn wrote:
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Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you — what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitos. L. Neil Smith


Quite so! Socialism is the religion of losers.

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Since, in the USA, the post office, the police, the army, and much of the educational system is socialism, it is those that must be responsible or the rapid collapse of the economy.



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04 Mar 2009, 12:38 pm

Sand wrote:
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Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you — what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitos. L. Neil Smith


Quite so! Socialism is the religion of losers.

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Since, in the USA, the post office, the police, the army, and much of the educational system is socialism, it is those that must be responsible or the rapid collapse of the economy.


Well, the Post Office is self funded (recieves no Tax money), but yes, those things, as well as other bits of absurd Socialist Policy over over the past few administrations - as well as the policies coming out of this one - ARE largely responsible for the economic collapse.

Too many people who do who produce nothing and do nothing but take from those who are productive.


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