Those who have or want to have children: would you want to genetically modify them?

[Warren DeMontague]

72. Yes, yes, original sin and the fall and the garden of eden and the noble savage.

The names change, the script remains the same.

Why I responded to the point I did? Like you, I have things that bug me. One thing that bugs me is the constant drone of negativity and humanity-hating I see from some corners, on this board. I do not think it actually helps address the real problems we, as progressives, actually face.

So I roll my eyes a bit when I hear how absolutely awful the world is now. Because there is really no way one could objectively shake out that the 21st century is worse for your average human, than the -100th was.

What you choose to see as an "attack" is merely me going "hey, maybe things aren't as bad as you think". Damn, here, I think I'm actually being NICE. But of course, that could just be my wily deception, trying to lure you off the path of truth, the truth being that everything REALLY sucks.

So, far be it for me to try to change your mind.

The situation in Kansas shows something else, the ability of an entire set of state actors to make one person's life miserable, while simultaneously asserting the opposite. Case in point is the school acting as snitch. Now, multiply that institutionalism out by hundreds of millions of people. That's the world we're living in.

True. AND the world we're living in is one where medical marijuana is now legal in more than half the country, 3 states and DC have legalized for recreational use, and the drug war- particularly marijuana prohibition- are, if not on their last legs, certainly down for the count and on a limited clock. Where there has been a sea change, both in state laws and public opinion. Same with LGBT marriage equality.

So yes the injustice in Kansas is wrong and horrible, but it points up a situation that more and more people are coming to realize, is intolerable and needs to end.