BWAHAHA!

[etherial]

A while back, I made a post comparing people who solicit for designer donor eggs to Nazis. As always, art and humor can never find ways to be as awful as real life. Lookie what we have here from Sunday.

Comments

[agthorr.livejournal.com]

Nazism in a nutshell: My race should stick together.

I think there's a big difference between racial pride and actively trying to exterminate other races. Perhaps racial pride is condemnable, but putting it on the same level as the Nazis is like saying murderers and shoplifters are equally condemnable since they're both crimes.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

You don't think that intelligence (or at least scholastic aptitude) has a genetic component?

I do. I think that intelligence is far from the main factor that gets you into college. Income is probably an order of magnitude higher on the list.

Re: I want it to have brown hair, etc...I am a Nazi?

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Would you really prefer someone with light eyes and skin who was blind, deaf, and had MS over someone with brown eyes, olive skin, and an olympic gold medal?

Re: I want it to have brown hair, etc...I am a Nazi?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

No, but I don't think that's the question or situation here. I'm really confused as to where you got it from, because it's quite obviously not what the Craigslister wants.

Re: No, but I don't think that's the question or situation here.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

I don't think it is, either. But suppose that tomorrow, someone really does post an ad on craigslist that cares only about race, eye color, IQ, etc. How would it look any different?

That's REALLY not the question nor situation here.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

And how do we know that any Craigslist ad looking for kittens to adopt isn't really someone who will put them in bags and light them on fire? There's no reason to assume the worst in either case. It's a rational assumption that someone looking for an egg donor cares first about health and disease, to the point that it doesn't need to be stated.

Re: That's REALLY not the question nor situation here.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Then you don't need to see the rest of the comments here. Because we have been discussing "if what they posted they cared about is really all they cared about, what does that make them?". The hypothetical I mentioned above arguing with neuromancerzss wasn't even about disease, it was about a woman who was one inch too short.

[agthorr.livejournal.com]

I do. I think that intelligence is far from the main factor that gets you into college. Income is probably an order of magnitude higher on the list.

If action X increases my hypothetical kids' chances of entering or completing college by some positive value Y and action X has no cost and no downsides, then I'm taking action X even if Y is small.

Re: That's REALLY not the question nor situation here.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

So I don't need to read the rest of the thread because you guys are going off on wild tangents in the realm of assuming completely evil stupidity on the part of someone you have no real reason to assume that of? Check.