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Probably why it didn't do well at the box office. I thought it was brilliant.HexHammer wrote:Had to stop watching this Gattaca movie ...was simply tooooo longwinded!!
I think Mary Shelley said it all.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Probably why it didn't do well at the box office. I thought it was brilliant.HexHammer wrote:Had to stop watching this Gattaca movie ...was simply tooooo longwinded!!
I don't get it.Dalek Prime wrote: I think Mary Shelley said it all.
Sorry. I meant that 'Frankenstein' should be the only warning we should need, not to mess with life or play god. Even with in vitro, we are crossing lines we shouldn't, putting more pressure on population where it needn't have been. And with that and designer babies, what need will there ever be to adopt a child who already exists, and needs attention and nurturing?vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I don't get it.Dalek Prime wrote: I think Mary Shelley said it all.
I thought you probably meant that. Natural selection has had a few billion years of practice. It's arrogant to think we can do better. Not to mention that a large percentage of humans are a bloody waste of oxygen anyway.Dalek Prime wrote:Sorry. I meant that 'Frankenstein' should be the only warning we should need, not to mess with life or play god. Even with in vitro, we are crossing lines we shouldn't, putting more pressure on population where it needn't have been. And with that and designer babies, what need will there ever be to adopt a child who already exists, and needs attention and nurturing?vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I don't get it.Dalek Prime wrote: I think Mary Shelley said it all.
Am I missing something or is this unrelated?Skip wrote:Some American academic did a study not very long ago on Romanian orphans. Seems, if they're placed in quality foster care before age two, they have a good chance of achieving normal social adjustment and intellectual development. After three, they can't. So, just go ahead and write off all the three-year-olds in the world that have been deprived of love.
Actually, I was hoping for a bit of whimsy, rather than bloody depressing reality. But wtf, eh?
On this I have to agree, people often misjudge how well nature has adapted an organism to it's environment. Just look at how the anti-environmentalists claim that the most fit do not always survive, they think they know better what is required for survival.vegetariantaxidermy wrote:I thought you probably meant that. Natural selection has had a few billion years of practice. It's arrogant to think we can do better. Not to mention that a large percentage of humans are a bloody waste of oxygen anyway.Dalek Prime wrote:Sorry. I meant that 'Frankenstein' should be the only warning we should need, not to mess with life or play god. Even with in vitro, we are crossing lines we shouldn't, putting more pressure on population where it needn't have been. And with that and designer babies, what need will there ever be to adopt a child who already exists, and needs attention and nurturing?vegetariantaxidermy wrote: I don't get it.
Blimey! Your attention span is limited.HexHammer wrote:Had to stop watching this Gattaca movie ...was simply tooooo longwinded!!
Some girl made me sit through the 'Meet Mr. Black' remake, at over three hours. That was painful.Arising_uk wrote:Blimey! Your attention span is limited.HexHammer wrote:Had to stop watching this Gattaca movie ...was simply tooooo longwinded!!
Technically, we can dump them even if we like the design. It could even become a favoured pastime.Dubious wrote:Can we dump them if we don't like the design?
...but you gotta dump them early enough otherwise they'll grow on you.Dalek Prime wrote:Technically, we can dump them even if we like the design. It could even become a favoured pastime.Dubious wrote:Can we dump them if we don't like the design?