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"someone choose to take care of you when you could not take care of yourself"
Yeah, when I was an infant. Nice red herring but completely besides the point, unless you want to dumb everything down to the pablum level. (Cue Idiocracy)
"Your eugenics is showing"
Your pavlovian response is showing. Just because there has been an interest in creating a master race through genetic manipulation does not mean that any discussion of the health of our gene pool is abhorrent.
Every day, would be parents undergo genetic testing to determine what if any undesirable traits could be passed down. A prime example of that is downs syndrome.
We will eventually need to face facts that continuing to pass on genetic disorders is immoral when we now have the ability to avoid inheriting diseases.
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Every day, would be parents undergo genetic testing to determine what if any undesirable traits could be passed down. A prime example of that is..
GOP sympathies.
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^^ waaa,, that's funny MM.. stabeeet : )
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Quote:"someone choose to take care of you when you could not take care of yourself" - Yeah, when I was an infant.
And when you were a kid and were taught to read and write, and when someone taught you a vast number of topics across several years of school, and when someone grew the food you ate today, and made your clothes, and designed and manufactured all the technology you use, and harnessed the energy that makes all of modern life possible. Your existence, along with near everyone else, is possible only because of the contributions of many thousands of individuals and your wellbeing is directly tied to, and dependent upon, theirs. I'd would think that a global pandemic would make this interdependence painfully clear, but apparently the myth of the lone wolf persists in some people's heads. Perhaps as the hurricane seasons worsen, the value of making efforts towards a well-informed, knowledgeable, and resilient community will make more sense to you.
Quote:Just because there has been an interest in creating a master race through genetic manipulation does not mean that any discussion of the health of our gene pool is abhorrent.
I'd hazard that I've forgotten more genetics than you've ever had to learn, as it was my education and occupation for decades, but please, go on and educate us who else you feel has to die so you can go about improving the "health of our gene pool", and how it's not eugenics ala Galton.
Between those advocating for misinformation and you declaring that those who fall for it deserve to die, it's quite the tag-team act. It's almost like you guys have not picked up on that whole concept promoted locally, you know that term popular here, with that Hawaiian word you keep hearing... oh well, guess I'll just have to say Aloha for now.
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It was a civil discussion until you felt the need to be condescending.
That's the problem these days, people have the lost the ability to reason back and forth without inserting little barbs.
The Irony is that despite living in warm sunny HI, your response was as cold hearted as the ice in AK.
Don't even bother bringing up the local lingo. I'm not Hawaiian. You should stick with the 'A' word that describes you best and it ain't Aloha...
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Long time reader.
Not the first time commenter.
Good to hear from you again ironyak!
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(07-25-2023, 08:56 PM)AaronM Wrote: Don't even bother bringing up the local lingo..
And still he pinned the tail on the donkey.
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(07-25-2023, 08:56 PM)AaronM Wrote: Don't even bother bringing up the local lingo. I'm not Hawaiian.
Neither am I, but that shouldn't stop one from recognizing the value of a good idea. Do you reject the usefulness of algebra because you're not Muslim, or democracy because you're not Greek (or Indian, Mesopotamian, Phoenician, etc)? Learning new things is actually part of that whole adaptation thing Darwin went on about.
As you now seem disinclined to detail which undesirables you want eliminated, I guess it's back to hurricanes.
Ironically, I was talking to someone in Hawi just before Calvin and they were adamant about how hurricanes can't pass through the channel between Kohala and Maui so they don't even bother to carry hurricane insurance. Similarly, Kohala Aina: A History of North Kohala, while an engaging book with many details from this time period, makes no mention of any devastating storms, so it seems like the 1871 event has largely been erased from modern memory or consideration.
Not being a meteorologist, I'm not well-versed in the science of whether or not Hawaii island can be directly struck by a hurricane, but having been through Iselle, it clearly can be hit hard enough by storms to mess up people's lives, and so prepare accordingly. For those inclined to believe that the Maunas deflect, affect, or dissuade large storms, with all the increasing signs of climate instability, it may be warranted to be on guard for novelty. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results", Caveat lector, and all that.
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Wow, thanks for the Wikipedia link. When I mentioned the pablum level, that was sarcasm but I guess that was lost on you.
The internet is an information free for all but you and your fact checking ilk are starting us down a path to a sanitized monoculture of thought.
If some people believe that our geography protects us from bad weather, who are you to begrudge them for that?
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protects us?
I'm still curious, who, besides TomK, and Edge regurgitating his words, has suggested our Mauna's provide a blanket protection to anything?
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