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Re:I Googled My Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s V... by Demiurge on Saturday April 11, 2015 @01:02AM (#9358570)
Oh, good point. Lets judge people by their DNA now.
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Re:I Googled My Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s V... by valvar on Saturday April 11, 2015 @01:04AM (#9358578)
No, let's just pretend that heritability doesn't exist, the world is much more comfortable that way.
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Re:I Googled My Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s V... by Retra on Saturday April 11, 2015 @01:22AM (#9358609)
The only thing you should evaluate people on is their ability to make decisions, and if that correlates with genetics, you need to be willing and able to modify genetics to make that fact relevant.
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Re:I Googled My Mother’s Maiden Name and Found My Family’s V... by Demiurge on Saturday April 11, 2015 @01:14AM (#9358596)
I'm not the biggest Hollywood fan, but what do you think about movies like Gattaca, Minority Report?

We aren't even anywhere close to such fictional understanding of the role of DNA and nature-vs-nurture mechanics of human development, or even what sentience is. And you think we can use DNA to judge people? I never said "lets pretend heritability doesn't exit", I implied we can't judge people based on whatever you think we do know about it.

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