K's comment is disgusting.

However, "Kaka" takes the cake. Couching soulless "bioethics" doctrine in a load of faux-altruistic existential nonsense? I'm near to vomiting right now.

By your sick doctrines, Kaka, I strongly suggest you avoid the emergency room if you suffer a major injury. You'd be a "burden" on society, taking up "time, money and emotion" that could be spent "elsewhere"... Better to let anyone who might be "defective" or suffer massive injury die, so that only the "strong" and the "perfect" might live...in a cold and heartless world, devoid of the singular inspiration provided by those noble souls who have overcome illness and physical deformity.

In a world absent of Helen Kellers (blind-deaf), Hank Williamses (spina bifida), Jesse Jacksons (cleft lip), Lord Byrons (club foot), Chris Burkes (Down syndrome), John F. Kennedys (Addison's disease), Christopher Reeveses (spinal injury), Lisa Bentleys (cystic fibrosis), or Susie Maroneys (crebral palsy).

...In a world devoid of people like my mother, who has survived three types of cancer, two of them terminal, and still lives her life to the very fullest. Or my hydrocephalic brother, who has beaten all the odds and grown into a handsome and strong 31-year-old man with a talent for cooking and carpentry, who just happens to have a very sophisticated pump in his head.

In your premature condemnation of that child above, Kaka, you have also condemned my family, and likely your own as well. I sincerely hope that no-one in your family tree suffered from cancer or a deformity. They would likely be as thoroughly disgusted with you as I am.

--TwoDragons

My Mom has multiple organs as well. Turns out she absorbed a twin in utero. Unfortunately, cancer prevents her from donating any of her excess innards. Ah well.

I bet this guy's got the cleanest blood on the planet!

--TwoDragons

So does the Southern Flannel Moth...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asp_%28caterpillar%29

Way back in the hazy past, growing up as a poverty-stricken kid whose mother line-dried our clothes, we dreaded Spring. Spring was Asp Season. You always checked for fat fuzzy caterpillars before you put on any of your clothes, lest you suffer some PAINFUL consequences! I'd have welcomed a dozen scorpion stings, over one Asp sting...

--TwoDragons

I just mentally pictured this guy in his eighties and...well...I think I sprained something...

--TwoDragons

Hey Alex--I'm currently sticking my tongue out at you, out loud. ;-)

I like the fact that humans are genuinely trying to bring back something that humans made extinct through their own ignorance. It gives me hope that we haven't thoroughly mired ourselves in exactly that thought of "Oh well, that's just the way it goes, it's dead and gone but WE must go on, etc."

And frankly, it's better research than engineering a subcutaneous bra... ;-)

--TwoDragons

That thing costs more than my CAR!! o_0

--TwoDragons

Ack, I meant "intensity"... :-/

--TwoDragons

Bernini's David could beat the snot out of Donatello's poncy little git. Just look at the expression on his face! I've never seen a marble figure convey such motion and in tensity before!

--TwoDragons

@ Ali:

"...like a fat man on a free buffet..."

I'm so glad I finished my tea before reading that, or my shirt would be caffeinated right now! *snort!*

--TwoDragons

Enh, I love both styles...when they're done well, of course. ;-)

--TwoDragons

*bursts out into song* IIIIIIIIIIIImmanuel Kan was a real p*ssant, who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table...

*runs away singing at the top of her lungs...*

--TwoDragons

I doubt it would support anything heavier than my shadow... ;-)

--TwoDragons

Awwww, I <3 you too, Neatorama--but in a Platonic way 'cause I'm happily married an' all... ;-)

--TwoDragons

ACK! I can't even play it with ONE board, much less EIGHT!

I'll leave that to Vulcans and Time Lords, thanks.

--TwoDragons

Aaaaaaargh, I miss the good old days, when the Force was just something inside you, not explained away as the actions of some microbe in a person's body...

(<--fan of Original Trilogy)

Oh--and here's a handy guide for those who get their Treks and Wars mixed up:

Vulcan Neck Pinch - Star Trek
The Force - Star Wars

Spock - Star Trek
Yoda - Star Wars

U.S.S. Enterprise - Star Trek
Millennium Falcon - Star Wars

V'Ger - Star Trek
Death Star - Star Wars

Khan Noonian Singh - Star Trek
Darth Vader - Star Wars

Captain James T. Kirk - Star Trek
Han Solo - Star Wars

Worf the Klingon - Star Trek
Chewbacca the Wookiee - Star Wars

"The Original Production Was Better..." - Star Trek
"The Original Production Was Better..." - Star Wars

--TwoDragons