So, what is the value of a human life? Is yours worth living? Are you sufficiently non-defective? Can you be fixed?

Hard questions... Who decides?

(Are babies then to be treated as property like slaves?)

You're replaceable, too. Feel free to skip your next major medical procedure. Pass the savings on to your heirs.

Ah! That's where you'd be wrong. People do choose to have children with DS. (And it's not about the $s)

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/9/hundreds-call-to-adopt-down-syndrome-baby-save-it-/

Of all the people that I've seen with DS, only one of them has been an "angry" person. Most have been among the happiest people that I've ever met.

'nuf said.

A Tale of Two Saturns:

1998 Saturn SL1, 1.8L engine, manual transmission - Highway 40+mpg; City 30+mpg; peppy and responsive

2001 Saturn SL1, 1.8L engine, automatic transmission - Highway 35+mpg; City ~22 mpg; sluggish

Or for people who don't want to install SilverLight on their Mac just to watch Netflix.

Yep, must be... ;^) So far, at least, since the article (but who (else) reads those?) makes no mention of it being compromised this time.

$65,000 if you can through, though.

Yes... Why did you need to ask?

I had the opportunity to look up an address in Washington State on Google Maps and found that there were a lot of boats in the suburbs of Seattle. They were typically parked on their trailers in or very near the front yards of their owners' homes. Small boats, surely, but obviously ready to use when the desire presented itself.

A little bit of troll food here: There is a roadmap and a vision for the future.

Get informed/involved at perl.org

The "Gun Show Loophole" has been closed for several years. Even to buy a gun from a private seller at a gun show, you must pass a background check. Here in Colorado, it's an instant check (that looks into the FBI and CBI databases), but it has to be paid for, done, and passed before you'll be sold a firearm.

Do you not believe that natural selection is a good thing? ;^)

He also freed his slaves and made it his business to promote the abolition of slavery in America. (Analogous to this -- Who do you think gave women the "right" to vote? Hint: It was men.)

But the pool of specialists in an area tend to be small and somewhat in-bred. The more specialized, the more closely related the group will be.

There is the way it should be (you seem to understand it) and there's the way that it is...