Re: Interaction between epigenetics and genetics

From: P (fell_trapforspambot_in_at_ozemail.com.au)
Date: 08/24/04

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    "Michael Ragland" <ragland37@webtv.net> wrote in message
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    >
    > I think both are important Peter but if there is a gene which definitely
    > has been linked to criminal behavior than in the future voluntary
    > efforts should be made to screen for it (and if the mother decides to
    > abort it) and when human genetic engineering is possible and this trait
    > can be removed that should be offerred.
    <snip>.
    > I think the importance of child rearing and providing a loving
    > environment for a child is very important and society doesn't give it
    > enough attention but this is an issue which can be seen separate from
    > efforts at genetically screening and genetically engineering certain
    > traits.

    I am largely sympathetic to your opinion, but there is a lot we don't know
    yet so I still think it might be good that no radical political decisions in
    this regard has been made and applied yet.

    May be I'm getting old and conservative. %-}

    Regards,

    Peter 

    --
Partly inspired by MAD (cold war shaming acronym) I invented "EPT" (errudite
;>, eclectically Explanatory, perversely Pert, Terminology & thought tactic)
and grasped mainly why and how people preoccupied in science or philosophy
sidestep or are 'so senza' making sense of the lifetime challenges behind
(such and other) "AEVASIVE" striving.
In that acronym, for Ambiadvantageously Evolved Vexed Actention
Selection (System) Involving Various Endoopiates, AS stand for how we
think/emote/behave based on our individual repertoire of 'competing' (by
means of mutual inhibition) whilst 'cheered' and 'booed' (by current and
past environmental influences) "actention modules"; And AE refer
specifically to the evolved results of 2 types of selective pressure:
1.survival-enabling Opportunity
2. synaptic hibernation imploring (so both genophenotyping & 'motivating' of
a capacity to be selectively unconscious) Adversity [type traumatic
situations - normally repercussively retained as insidious "CURSES" type
memories].
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