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A comment on In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011. Parent comment

Re:In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 by borispavlovic on Friday December 16, 2011 @03:31AM (#3360013)
Because we don't need it. Our genes are reproduced and they are carrying the best and the worst parts of us and our experience.
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Re:In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 by emil0r on Friday December 16, 2011 @03:56AM (#3360058)
Your children carries your experiences?
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Re:In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 by jarin on Friday December 16, 2011 @04:02PM (#3362301)
If you raise them.
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Re:In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 by emil0r on Saturday December 17, 2011 @04:40AM (#3363907)
1) The OP made the claim that our genes carry our experiences onto our children. I've never experienced that and AFAIK it doesn't happen.

2) Raising a child doesn't give the child your experiences either. I have no memory of what my father experienced in his life based on him raising me. AFAIK it doesn't happen to other people either.

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Re:In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 by abdulhaq on Friday December 16, 2011 @07:18AM (#3360483)
I find that a stimulating comment because for me, not one tiny iota of what is good and bad about us comes from our genes. Our genes are the cards we are dealt with when we are born. How good and bad we are is seen in how we respond to that initial start. To say it's our genes that make us good sounds close to the stream of thought that believes in certain races being 'better' than others etc.
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