It's not up to me to decide what's legally right or ethically right or morally right, which is different.

Hell, I would be willing to consider cloning body parts if it was possible to be worthwhile.

I would be willing to consider genetic manipulation to eliminate genetic disorders to be worthwhile.

I would even be willing to consider genetic cloning of super soldiers to be worthwhile.

But I am not in a position intellectually to say what is or is not best for society. And hell, our politicians probably are not either, though they have the responsibility and obligation to do so properly.

But I do know, you pass laws restricting things BEFORE someone does it, if you want it kept from being done. Not sweep it away because people think it's not possible yet.

On your question specifically. I'm torn between natural selection and humanitarianism. I truly believe at some point, letting nature take its course is for the best. I would not want to be a vegetable on a machine. I would not want to spend hundred of millions to extend my life another month. The question is, where to draw the line, and luckily, that is also not my worry.

Reminds me of two sayings.

1. "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi

2. Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course...
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.

Though Jack Sparrow stole this line.

Laws aren't only there for prevention.

They are there to punish. Without laws, you can't punish people for doing something society deems wrong.

And yes.....they SHOULD ban zombies since zombies are popularly created by bio-warfare gone wrong. And there are international treaties against bio-warfare. Since zombie rampage IS an apocalyptic event...all good efforts should be put to preventing it.

When is the time to pass laws prohibiting people from doing bad things? After someone does it already and he gets a freebie cause oh well it's not against the law YET.

Genetic manipulation, chimera, and cloning aren't out of the realm of scientific possibility.

Hell, they ARE working on cloaking devices and disruptors.

It's not always about ignorance or willful ignorance, or plain ol' stupidity.

Sometimes it's about holding off the potential problem until you empty the coffers then run off, leaving someone else to hold the bag or pick up the check.

That is capitalism, and it's been rampant with CEO's and upper management over the years. We have had CEO's running companies into the ground, pulling out outrageous bonuses, and paying stockholders to shore up the illusion and then run off after.

Why is this a surprise?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, or at least temporarily.

They both have a common goal, to screw over the citizens and their sheer disdain for anyone who doesn't have the power to influence them.

Therefore it makes perfect sense that since helping the citizens doesn't make sense to team up, but screwing the citizens does.

I like both Hanlon's Razor and Occam's Razor, but in this case, we should be looking at Occam's Razor.

Making School led prayer IS establishing a national religion. It is encroaching on one's freedom not to participate in religion since School is mandatory.

If people want to pray on their own, knock yourself out. Give students 5 mins before homeroom to either prayer or talk to their friends. *snickers* wonder how many kids would voluntarily do it. But don't make religion mandatory.

Separation of Church and State and the denouncement of School led prayer is a line in the stand to cut off "Mandatory" participation in school prayer, which is Christian based, and offensive to non-Christians to be forced to participate since School is mandatory. It's another attempt by right-winged Taliban wannabe's to brainwash American Youth into the Myth of Christianity.

I used to get hell in school when I refused to participate in school prayer or "wasn't reciting" it loud enough to be added to the voice of the class.

Fascism comes in all flavors, even cult led. Especially Cult led.

Uhm, you realize the crazy things that US, CND, OZ, Britain, etc. are the things that distinguish them from the Middle East and the East. This is simply another thing the East and Middle East look down the West on.

I get your point...but there were multiple nations on earth "Chosen by God".

Britannia felt they were chosen by God.
Romans felt they were chosen by God.
Hell most of the ancient world thought they were chosen by God.
Japanese felt they were chosen by God.
Chinese felt they were chosen by God.

But to your point, both Muslims and Jewish nations felt they were uniquely chosen by God. Which one are you referring to?

A God by any other name is still a God.

My Catholic Church kindly reminds the parishioners, "You have missed your weekly tithing, please be sure to next week" or something like that.

After that, I felt heavily the corruption of the church.

We should divide the country back as the civil war tried. If you look at the presidential elections, there's a decent separation. Northeast and West are heavily democratic. The middle and the bible belt as it is put, is heavily Republican.

I'm sure the "Confederate" states would support what Texas is doing now, and the people complaining are the "Union" states. There are so many laws that keep floundering on party lines, which is state lines.

Also give Hawaii back to the natives and not worry about a provincial halfway across the globe.

Except the Liberal's aren't trying to rewrite history with crazy cult ideas like these and are at least trying to be as close to fact and reality as people remember them.

"a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world"
"sidelining Thomas Jefferson, who favoured separation of church and state"
"suggestion that the anti-communist witch-hunt by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s may have been justified"

You know who also had crazy cult like ideas similar to these? Nazi and KKK and the Ori from the fictional Stargate Universe.

My biggest problem is the first crazy statement that justifies the US aggressive intervention into every other country and to push Christianity to them or kill them.

As Mao Tse Tung said, Religion is poison.

I think....the ignorant and short sighted people will start burning the books for fuel, and tearing down libraries and factories.

Hey if natural selection hasn't weeded out overweight geeks, nerds, dweebs, others yet.......I blame society.

How many of those species have an impact in our supermarkets? That's the point where people should start caring.