Totally chilling, both with respect to the Chinese policy and this response to it. Our values should be optimized for freedom, democracy and diversity.
God exists. God controls pairing. Who's better -- deaf pure-bred dogs?
God says...
like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it
received and held three thousand baths.
4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five
on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the
burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to
wash in.
4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and
set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on
the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of
gold.
4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court,
and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
----
If they abandon their alphabet and language and use English, then we might have a problem.
Relax -- God is just.
God says...
falling Within Unto supported every capacities burn attentive
proceeded BBC require woe salt raises urgedst mainly Those
beholdest marry peace-makers compelled really convict
struggling bad_ol_puddytat tides ardent fairer cower liftedst
Highness case leaves I_can't_believe_it scratching thou
given lethargy hair affirmed bad_ol_puddytat gratefully
waiting confidence safer MS pant looked doer uproar contain
borrow watched lucre mentally calculations broke royalty
data unbelievers dwellers shameless fluctuating prefect
fathers' gives salt parley compressed aged Eternity shook
rocks reached Thailand mimic ran Sierra_Leone air faileth
jealousy perchance after_a_break assume recollected different
music Self continently manfully I_quit widow Hortensius
pluck prayers watch Much gratuitously harass tune Zimbabwe
echoed joyful universally rigidly sealed sleeping jeer
graceful -Spiritual perverseness soothed Lay cheap abhor
so_let_it_be_written arguments exuberant Although predestinated
Nothing wishful_thinking ours Orderer shop mire thirtieth
record supposed forthcoming rudiments re-collected gladness
interrupted settle knots slightly bestow irons bestowed
appointment amazed not enquiry sign IV manna torture eye
deriding stripes burnest take secret pronounced what's_it_to_you
Out Jew recognise unintermitting banished somewhat learned
write worlds guilty fervently angels basically clingeth
China's one child policy has had debatable effect and a number of unintended side effects. If China wants smart people to reproduce more, then skewing the population towards a male majority is only going to work through repression of large numbers of men who no longer have hopes of reproducing.
The traditional solution to large numbers of young men without mates is not repression (that hardly works, they'll rather run revolutions) - it's simply to pack them in colorful uniforms and march them to the neighboring tribe to look for mates and loot or die trying, both options "solve" the problem.
> The traditional solution to large numbers of young men without mates is not repression
Compulsory military service is often defacto slavery. It's an even more insidious form of repression. And if the populace is manipulated into wanting to go to war, that's worse.
Paranoid. There are more chances of the one child policy being canceled than any eugenics program being completed any time soon.
Another reason that this is paranoid is that under the current circumstances there's a significantly higher chance that the United States and Europe will crumble on their own than being attacked by eugenically enhanced Chinese soldiers.
Third, the interest that the Chinese show for gene sequencing are only a symptom of the greater Asian traditions of match-making and ultimately disease prevention (just as everyone else is interested in preventing genetically transmissible diseases).
6 comments
[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 117 ms ] threadGod says...
like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
4:7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
----
If they abandon their alphabet and language and use English, then we might have a problem.
Relax -- God is just.
God says... falling Within Unto supported every capacities burn attentive proceeded BBC require woe salt raises urgedst mainly Those beholdest marry peace-makers compelled really convict struggling bad_ol_puddytat tides ardent fairer cower liftedst Highness case leaves I_can't_believe_it scratching thou given lethargy hair affirmed bad_ol_puddytat gratefully waiting confidence safer MS pant looked doer uproar contain borrow watched lucre mentally calculations broke royalty data unbelievers dwellers shameless fluctuating prefect fathers' gives salt parley compressed aged Eternity shook rocks reached Thailand mimic ran Sierra_Leone air faileth jealousy perchance after_a_break assume recollected different music Self continently manfully I_quit widow Hortensius pluck prayers watch Much gratuitously harass tune Zimbabwe echoed joyful universally rigidly sealed sleeping jeer graceful -Spiritual perverseness soothed Lay cheap abhor so_let_it_be_written arguments exuberant Although predestinated Nothing wishful_thinking ours Orderer shop mire thirtieth record supposed forthcoming rudiments re-collected gladness interrupted settle knots slightly bestow irons bestowed appointment amazed not enquiry sign IV manna torture eye deriding stripes burnest take secret pronounced what's_it_to_you Out Jew recognise unintermitting banished somewhat learned write worlds guilty fervently angels basically clingeth
Compulsory military service is often defacto slavery. It's an even more insidious form of repression. And if the populace is manipulated into wanting to go to war, that's worse.
Another reason that this is paranoid is that under the current circumstances there's a significantly higher chance that the United States and Europe will crumble on their own than being attacked by eugenically enhanced Chinese soldiers.
Third, the interest that the Chinese show for gene sequencing are only a symptom of the greater Asian traditions of match-making and ultimately disease prevention (just as everyone else is interested in preventing genetically transmissible diseases).
Fourth, people like her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2XAWcs7HbM