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This is a normal post But that's utterly idiotic
It's a bit like saying that it's OK not to rescue a child who's about to drown and whom you could save easily, and trying to say that her lack of gills is what makes it OK. It's complete nonsense.

"Unfitness" in your slightly sinister understanding is not a reason not to assist.

As for your second point - it's trite. In effect, what you're saying is that it's problematic to do problematic stuff. Woo-hoo. What's your evidence about the likelihood of a disaster? Is making nutritionally-enhanced golden rice a disaster?

And, either way, if there is such a disaster, by the lights of your first point, you ought to be indifferent, because we're obviously not fit to survive it.

You're making Ayn Rand look sensible.
(, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't see what that adds.
There was a fuck up here, by the looks of it. But to think that that tells you anything about GM in abstracto is a bit like thinking that a road accident tells you that using a car is wrong.
(, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:33, , Reply)