>Hi,
>
>A more interesting thing to consider is the results of a systematic health
>care system. For instance, what does consistently saving babies that would
>other-wise have died do to the continuning ability of the species to
>propagate?
>
>How about eye-glasses? The longer we use them, the more of the population
>*needs* to use them!
>
>These and other issues make me wonder about the long term (ten of thousands
>of years and up) viability of this thing we call "civilization". Are we
>breeding people who cannot survive without it? If so, how long until even
>our bests efforts will not be able to "cure" the debased gene's of the
>culture?
>
>Maybe genetic engineering is not a only likely but a *necessary* step for a
>galactic civilization!
>
>ERiC
-- Only the weak are blind when the mist descends red_mist