On Jul 30, 1:23=A0pm, Just Me <mac_the_n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jul 29, 4:09 pm, "Anopheles" <hi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > I was eating lunch in the work cafeteria one day, reading a woman's
mag=
over
> > the shoulder of a girl. In one of those columns where the sage
journali=
st
> > discusses problems sent in by readers, I noticed a letter from a young
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man
> > who was about to reach 21 and was looking for his natural parents. I
kn=
ew in
> > my heart from the brief details he gave that this was a son given up
fo=
r
> > adoption as a new born. I wrote to the mag and after a nervous,
protect=
ive
> > discussions, we got to meet.
> > Here was a man I had never met yet unquestionably the fruit of my
loins=
.. Of
> > course there were similarity in looks, but I'll let genetics have
that.=
What
> > genetics cannot claim is all the mannerisms, the soft voice, the
laugh,=
and
> > other characteristics which mimicked the progenitor so closely. These
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re
> > things I doubt are wrapped up in the double helix.
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> > The only problem with this conclusion is, where did the influences
come
> > from?
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> > Anopheles
>
> Genes. Genes for characteristics which are neither 'bad' nor 'good'. A
> gene determining the formation of a larynx, let alone the medullar
> equipment of gray matter for its regulation; color of eye, hair and
> complexion. However, if the cognitive neuro-science paradigm
> describing the human being as an ever so predictable, no less than
> programmable robot off the genetic assembly-line . . . if this
> deplorable theory of no dignity, no will, no soul of self-
> determination for man is to be proven right, then more than mere
> mannerisms must be shown to be hard-wired by the human genome.
>
> If the boy you describe should turn out to be, upon full maturity, a
> chip off the old block even to the extent that the letters of "love
> children" from all over Australia, New Zealand and the Solomon Islands
> are appearing in magazines in search of your boy--no, not even that
> will be enough to scientifically satisfy their hackneyed "like father,
> like son" claims. They must show something of biblical pro****tion
> where "the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons even unto the
> tenth generation" and that such profligate randiness runs genetically
> amok not only in your family but likewise with that of every other Don
> Juan and Casanova in the world, from New South Wales to Seville.
>
> And what of the alleged genetic propensity which caused John Dillinger
> to rob banks? What will they say when it is shown to be the same as
> that which produced the banking career of J. P. Morgan?
>
> They are full of ****, evil Orwellian **** of the Brave New World
> order of ****, and I'm glad to see that this **** is no news to
> you. ;-)
> --
> JMhttp://whosenose.blogspot.comhttp://jesu***egesis.blogspot.com
> jpd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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My nose is genetically predetermined, but my attitude towards it is
not.
That could have been said by Cyriano de Begerac, but extremes do not
the philosopher make.
I am certain we are on the cusp of discovering behavioural genes. That
should put the cat amongst the pidgeons regadring laws relating to
culpability.
We will be able to blame our father, our fathers father, or our
fathers fathers father, and use Old testament references to
validate.Dig the bastard up and stone him.
Please dont call me bignose, as reaction is often painfull.
(alt.philosophy response)...come over. Very eclectic.
BOfL
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