Ernest Schaal wrote:

> I fear that you put too much faith in technology, and are blind to the fact
> that technology is less than 100% correct

Oh, and 12 amateurs and what they decide to agree on, is more often correct than
what the best technology could offer us, if there were not obstacles in the way?

> But the price of that technology is a "1984"-like police state, where
> individual privacy is impossible. That is simply too high a price to pay.

That is what people say because they are not acquainted with such a lifestyle.

There was a time when cutting out pieces of dead flesh from humans and putting them
in others, or being host to a dead person's flesh, or conceiving a human child in a
dish, was equally unappealing.

How much of today's medical technology which is often used to save lives, prevent
disease, or simply help people, would you have stood in the way of? Even Nancy
Reagan can now see the promise of stem cell research, despite the unappealing
aspects of it.

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shove more than three burgers in my mouth!"