From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: not@chance.dude   
   Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds   
      
   Karl Johanson wrote:   
   > "Wickeddoll"    
   >> GeneK wrote:   
   >>> "Brad Filippone" wrote in   
   >>>> Ah, but how do we know that isn't what Russian accents   
   >>>> sound like in the 23rd century? :)   
   >>> If an entire nation of people actually talked like that, they would never    
   >>> have been allowed to survive into the 22nd century.   
   >>>   
   >>> GeneK   
   >> I really hope eugenics don't happen, thanks.   
   >    
   > Some forms of eugenics happen already. Sterilization of people with extreme    
   > metal disabilities has happed in some areas. BC (my home province) &    
   > Alberta's 'Sexual Sterilization' acts weren't repealed until 1972. I don't    
   > know if it's still happening in any specific places around the world. Some    
   > people obsessed with the idea of male offspring use sex screening to allow    
   > them to abort female foetuses. Some forms of eugenics have huge popular    
   > support (including support by some very powerful religions, including    
   > yours), such as bans on siblings marrying, allegedly because of genetic    
   > concerns (even though the superstitious arguments for the ban predate    
   > understandings of genetics by millennia).   
      
   Yes, I've heard of that stuff, but it's not being done on a massive    
   level - at least not yet.  I have never seen anything from Catholic    
   doctrine supporting any type of manipulation of reproduction, other than    
   no contraception or abortion.  And there are very good reasons to keep    
   siblings from reproducing!  I don't know what you've read, but    
   inbreeding really does cause chromosomal anomalies.  Does it do that all    
   the time? No, but I think to risk it at all is a mistake- not for moral    
   reasons, (though I think it's icky) but sound medical research.  Please,    
   if this is in error, show me where you've heard inbreeding isn't usually    
   detrimental?   
      
   Natalie   
   >    
   > 'Positive eugenics' was practiced in Stalinist Russia, where by 'fit' women    
   > weren't allowed abortions.   
   >    
   > Some Christians in Uganda (with serious help from some Christians in the US)    
   > are working hard to pass a eugenics law where by homosexuals will be killed    
   > (with a rider law that anyone who doesn't report homosexuals will be    
   > jailed).    
   > http://current.com/items/91580533_kill-the-gays-bill-rachel-maddow.htm   
   >    
   > I didn't realize that laws banning interracial marriages lasted so long in    
   > the US. Virginia's 'anti-miscegenation' law wasn't repealed until 1967 (a    
   > year before Kirk & Uhura kissed on Trek).   
   >    
   > Karl Johanson    
   >    
   >    
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