Posted by Susan47 on May 9, 2005, at 13:19:26
In reply to Call an electrician, my circuits are crossed, posted by Phil on May 9, 2005, at 10:34:11
That is fascinating. Is that an article you quoted? Because it doesn't say whether the one study found whether the effects of having a short gene from both parents caused significantly more problems than having just one short gene from one parent.
That was really enlightening, and it makes me wonder, too, if we can find that short gene, do we now have a responsiblity, for those of us having depression and anxiety disorders, to seek out that gene before we decide to have children? So we can take measures right from conception to ensure that our kids will suffer less than we did? We have that responsibility in any case, but knowing what gene causes a problem .. that's a huge responsibility added. And with knowledge we get the responsibility, don't we. We already have too much knowledge, more than we can be responsible for. We're already in so much trouble, ethically, with ourselves and our world. We've completely outsmarted ourselves, we haven't matured emotionally, and ethically, fast enough to keep pace with the capability of our brains, we're developing in the wrong direction entirely.
But I've digressed just a bit, and can't find my way back to the original topic at hand.
poster:Susan47
thread:495536
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20050503/msgs/495570.html