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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by eikenberry on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:10PM (#33846824)
The child is the outcome, not the winner/loser. The child is more akin to the reward the lottery gives out than the person getting the lottery. Closest participant to that would be the parents who are getting a "lottery" child... as they (currently) have no deliberate control over the genetic expressions.
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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by scatterhead on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:15PM (#33846872)
> The child is more akin to the reward the lottery gives out than the person getting the lottery.

You seem to be missing the point that we are stuck with who we are. Our mental and physical faculties are handed down to us. We receive them, even though they define us. We experience ourselves.

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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by eikenberry on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:16PM (#33847440)
We don't "receive them", we are them. Unless you, as another poster pointed out, believe in the Guf or similar.
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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by pixl97 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @04:48PM (#33847766)
Eh, we completely receive them and as technology improves our makers will have increased options on which ones we receive, especially if we're wealthy.
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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by 0ct4via on Saturday December 03, 2022 @07:06PM (#33848932)
[Eugenics has entered the chat]
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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by eikenberry on Saturday December 03, 2022 @11:55PM (#33850731)
So you think souls exist before people are born and so can be lucky. Got it.
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