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9th Engineer · 11-07-2006, 01:28 PM

Disease, no, but don't be fooled into confusing a persons genetics with the persons behavior. Genetics is far more complicated, those who say "it's a genetic factor, so it's just who they are" are really distorting what a genetic factor is. We've already done bahavioral analysis based on genetic markers in my cellular engineering course, and we're definately holding this to a different standard. At best your genetics are a structure upon which behaviors are built according to environmental influences, it is absolutly not a rigid frame that determines what you are from conception onwards. If it wasn't such a political issue I'm sure that we'd be doing research on what genes are involved in homosexuality, the results could be interesting in a number of other areas as well. We're actually very good at manipulating the expression of genes in living organisms, turning off or turning on different factors is simple. Wouldn't it be interesting to really know the answer to all this? Would people accept that answer no matter what it turned out to be?

11-07-2006, 01:28 PM	#8
9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	Disease, no, but don't be fooled into confusing a persons genetics with the persons behavior. Genetics is far more complicated, those who say "it's a genetic factor, so it's just who they are" are really distorting what a genetic factor is. We've already done bahavioral analysis based on genetic markers in my cellular engineering course, and we're definately holding this to a different standard. At best your genetics are a structure upon which behaviors are built according to environmental influences, it is absolutly not a rigid frame that determines what you are from conception onwards. If it wasn't such a political issue I'm sure that we'd be doing research on what genes are involved in homosexuality, the results could be interesting in a number of other areas as well. We're actually very good at manipulating the expression of genes in living organisms, turning off or turning on different factors is simple. Wouldn't it be interesting to really know the answer to all this? Would people accept that answer no matter what it turned out to be? __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.