new start

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Brad Walsh"
> What SHOULD be bred for, if one is proposing eugenics? Well I
could propose
> breeding for metabolisms that don't require 2-3 hours of physical
activity a
> day to keep from obesity and its comorbidities. I can make a case
for
> breeding for intelligence, but I can't see the current tools as
sharp enough
> to reliably quantify it. Rather I'd argue for the separate
heritability of
> memory, reason, insight, and other faculties, and a study of the
> heritability of each. I just don't believe that the authors of the
G factor
> stuff have separated nature and nurture to my satisfaction. I
think that
> once they do, the heritability of an overall intelligence distinct
from
> these individual factors will break down. I also think more study
is due on
> the early educational influences on the still-fluid intelligence of
the
> child. After all the brain enlarges substantially at around age
11, when
> higher order reasoning begins. No one has analyzed sufficiently
for me the
> nature of training and environment at this important stage, for the
> formative years just after.
>
> I would put breeding in a co-equal category with education, both
> "vocational" (practical things like engineering and sciences)
and "cultural"
> (the traditional liberal arts, with a goal toward teaching young
people the
> path to greater understanding than reason alone can give).

BRAVO, Brad!!!!

Naturally, I have some minor quibbles with your specifics -- ;) --
but this is PRECISELY the sort of discussion about eugenics/education
(I truly do see these two issues as "all of a piece"!) that needs to
be taking place in this society, free of the walking-on-eggshells
mentality engendered by the MultiCult and its obsession with what can
only be described as Orwellian "speechcrime."

Applauding your fearlessness and integrity -- spike