Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 at 21:13 GMT, csj penned:
>>
>> As usual, science fiction was here before. C.F., _The Songs of
>> Distant Earth_ by Arthur C. Clarke.
>
> You do remember that the first generation colonists in the novel were
> "manufactured" from gene samples and raised by machines that taught
> them a sanitized version of human history and culture? They were
> genetically and culturally engineered to be altruistic. So maybe our
> best hope lies in breeding out our baser instincts.
>
Somehow, I doubt that "baser insticts" can be bred out, especially by
just not teaching about them.
That whole "those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it" line
...
--
monique
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