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Date: 24 Jul 2002 13:14:51 -0700

Elias Sinderson <elias@cse.ucsc.edu> writes:

> Sorry, Karl, your confusing things.

No, it's just a silly discussion, but that's what picky semantic
discussions turn into :)

> Thos is saying that selective 
> breeding should be counted as genetic engineering, whereas you are 
> extending his definition to include the attration that your parents felt...

Yes, I'm saying that if he extends "genetic engineering" to include
selecting animals to breed, he must extend it to include selecting
people to breed with.

> Unless your parents were selectively bred like livestock to produce you, 
> I don't think you can make that case...  :-)

I'm saying that my parents selected each other, and that they did so
because (among other reasons) each wanted the other's genes to be
mixed with their own in the offspring that they were planning.

What does it matter that they were selecting to produce their own
offspring, rather than the offspring of two unrelated animals?

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