Krimel thanks for the dialog.
> [Khaled previously] > Has technology worked against Biology? > > [Krimel] > I would be hard pressed to say the technology has worked against biology. > After all life spans are longer and populations continue to rise at > levels that would give Malthus the heeby jeebies. [Khaled] What I meant here, is that while we had to expand energy to get food, now we can go to a supermarket and get a basketful of fatty goods that will do our body more harm than good. Technology made that possible. Technology is wonderful. I personally know that if it was not for modern dentistry all I would be having is apple sauce for dinner. > > [Khaled earlier] > Are social skills lagging behind modernization? > > [Krimel] > Whole new social skills are evolving before our eyes. Even 10 years > ago there was no reminder in movie theaters to turn of your cell phone. > There were no proposals being advanced in English Departments to allow > children to express themselves as they do when text messaging. If a student > tried to use emoticons of abbreviations it was a BFD. [Khaled] When Kamal Pasha wanted to bring Turkey in the modern world, he abolished the use of the Eastern alphabet ( mainly Arabic) to write Turkish words, and overnight turkey became illiterate. Scholars sat down and devised way for Turkey to keep speaking their language but write using the Latin alphabet. Well guess what is happening in neighboring countries these days? These changes are becoming about automatically as the younger generations is hooked on their cell phones and computer keyboards. > [Khaled earlier] > Have we interfered with the "survival of the fittest"? > > [Krimel] > Maybe interfere is not the right word but we have radically altered > what fittest means. We have extended the lives of children born with all > manner of birth defects. [Khaled] My point exactly. So who gets to play god when a medical procedure is going to cast $250,000 dollars and the child will not live to see her 10th birthday. That kind of money can be used to provide preventative Medici for hundreds of kids. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
