Embarking on a UK speaking tour here's a man not afraid to court controversy. He claims black people are less intelligent. But it was this repugnant view that caught my eye and I briefly wondered how the anti-abortion and anti-gay fundamentalists would square it.
Dr Watson is no stranger to controversy. He has been reported in the past saying that a woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual.
Of course they would reject the idea because they believe sexual orientation can be changed. Although if a gene exists who created it?
This sort of idea highlights what an ethical nightmare gene technology can present.
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I briefly wondered how the anti-abortion and anti-gay fundamentalists would square it.
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Of course they would reject the idea because they believe sexual orientation can be changed. Although if a gene exists who created it?
The operative word here Lindsay is if and it is a huge if.
And the question goes far beyond the fashionable cause of homosexuality but encompasses all areas of human behavior both positive and negative.
A violence gene - that came up in relation to Polynesians recently as I recall.
How about an empathy gene?
I don't think that it is gene technology which presents that ethical nightmare.
Gene technology provides just another means for people to do what they have always done, in one fashion or another: get rid of those they don't like. Why beat a homosexual to death when you can abort them?
The ethical problem is rooted in people who USE gene technology in unethical ways, not in gene technology itself.
"He has been reported in the past saying'
Doubtful then that he actually said it. Misrepresentation is rife in the liberal controlled media.
I'd listen to redbaiter. In my experience he's an expert at misstating the facts.
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