On 4/7/2010 10:59 AM, Salmon Egg wrote:
> In >, Tom >
> wrote:
>
>> I remember being a kid in the 1950's. People were a LOT healthier
>> then. Almost no one had health insurance and they rarely went to
>> the doctor and rarely took drugs of any kind. The average person
>> could work hard all day long and enjoy it. Serious illnesses were
>> so rare that they were newsworthy and became the talk of the
>> town. Healthy old people died peacefully in their sleep after
>> playing with their great-grandchildren all day long.
>
> Before technological intervention on a massive scale, natural selection
> took care of bad gene combinations. FWIW, I think the liberal process of
> protecting people from bad throws of genetic dice cannot go on for many
> more generations. Liberals have to stop trying to prevent natural
> selection while conservatives have to stop denying evolution is at the
> center of human and other biology.

"Conservatives" don't deny this. There's a lunatic fringe that does,
but they're not the mainstream. Unfortunately the press gives them good
coverage--if the press would just ignore them the world would be a
better place.