H5N1 Virus, Atomic Weapons, Genetic Modification

I suggest we stop playing with fire. Even though
cooked food tastes better and is safer to eat in many
cases, it is not natural.

Staying warm in cold weather is also not natural.
Fire is still one of the leading causes of death among
humans.

There are some things that are just morally wrong
because it is not natural. Here is my short list:

1) Farming. Things should grow naturally not the way
man wants them to.
2) Digital photography.
3) Penicillin.
4) Electric guitars.
5) Airplanes
6) Computers
7) Space colonies.
8) Genetic engineering
9) Particle accelerators.
10 Censoring the Rolling Stones at football games.

--- Dan Wylie-Sears wrote:

> > This is a highly normative position ...
>
> Nothing wrong with being normative. It's just that
> it's wrong.
>
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com,
> "victoriatangoman"
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, sraj
> wrote:
> >
> > > 1. Recognize that it is highly immoral to alter
> in an unnatural
> way
> > > the DNA of any life form on Plant Earth.
> >
> > This is a highly normative position, just like
> Muslims saying that
> > Mohammed shouldn't be portrayed. Fine for them,
> but not for me at
> all.
> > You may hold to this Gaian philosophy but I think
> there is nothing
> at
> > all immoral about working with DNA, and I don't
> distinguish between
> > natural and unnatural mechanisms.
> >
> > > Life forms on Earth relate to one another in
> complex ways. We do
> not
> > > have the complete blue prints.
> >
> > It appears to me that you're holding to very
> platonic ideals of
> what
> > lifeforms are, that the interrelationships are
> static and not
> dynamic,
> > and that what once was will always be.
> >
> > Not so in the least. Life adapts through selection
> pressure, drift,
> > and along clines. What is the blueprint for H.
> Sapien? How do you
> > account for the fact that 100% of Zambians are
> lactose intolerant
> > compared to 2% of Danes? Or that many sub-saharan
> Africans and New
> > World Indian populations lack the ASPM allele,
> which is a
> determinant
> > of brain size, while it is present in the majority
> of EurAsians?
> >
> > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
>
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