From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: karljohanson@shaw.ca
Subject: Re: Shatner sick of Star Trek feuds
"Wickeddoll" wrote in message
news:hfdnev.380.1@news.evilcabal.org...
> 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Alberta's 'Sexual Sterilization' acts weren't repealed until 1972.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).
'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 Virginia's 'anti-miscegenation' law wasn't repealed until 1967 (a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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