Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Salon.com Technology | How I decoded the human genome

"I asked Jakob how he felt about the idea that, thanks to the Human Genome Project, in the future, kids like him and his friends need never be born. (Although Jakob's disabilities were caused by prenatal infection and not by a genetic abnormality, that's academic. He well knows that he's just as much a mutant as any of his friends.) He thought for a few seconds, and then said in a voice dripping with irony, 'Hello, justifiable holocaust.'"

Of course, the question isn't asked, if killing these people because of bad genes is wrong, why is it ok to kill them under any circumstances. OK...well this only part 1 of the story, perhaps that will come in part 2.

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