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Originally Posted by Kailana
I was wondering if anyone else is super sensitive to hearing others discuss things?
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Kailiana,
What your Professor is espousing is called
"Social Darwinism", and it is highly controversial, and by no means accepted by mainstream. It has been used to justify eugenics, slavery, racism, and genocide.
I would like to remind you that you are
not a "nobody". If you have not done so, I would recommend that you watch the film
Gattaca. In the DVD there is an interesting deleted scene which shows all of the influential people with so-called "defects", who might never have been born if genetic manipulation had been available in their time. They include:
Abraham Lincoln (Marfan's Syndrome),
Emily Dickinson (Manic Depression),
Vincent van Gogh (Epilepsy),
Albert Einstein (Dyslexia),
John F. Kennedy (Addison's Disease),
Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer's Disease),
Ray Charles (Primary Glaucoma),
Stephen Hawking (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis),
and
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Asthma).
The point is, we are so much more than our genes. Once a species develops intelligence, that changes everything. Gattaca's tagline says it best: "There is no gene for the human spirit"