Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:08:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU> Subject: SAC 'Fragile X' -Forwarded (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 17:08:17 -0600 From: Lisa Rogers <LROGERS-AT-deq.state.ut.us> To: marxism2-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Subject: SAC 'Fragile X' -Forwarded Forwarded Mail received from: Lisa Rogers Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:48:27 -0600 From: Lisa Rogers <LROGERS-AT-deq.state.ut.us> To: SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE-AT-SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU Subject: SAC 'Fragile X' I doubt that a reasonable assessment of the 'evidence' would find any alleged association between any gene and 'delinquency' to be supportable. It seems to be a common belief that genes specifically control behaviors, perhaps more so among politically conservative cop-types than among biologists. Of course there is money available for funding such "research" because... ?? Perhaps because some people are interested in trying to justify the present class system. Blaming the victims and pretending that there is nothing we can do is simply to support the status quo. If social organization has nothing to do with behavior, then we don't have to worry about changing any social factors. Everything we _do_ have stacks of evidence about shows that there are already known things that have major, obvious effects on delinquency that are not genetic at all. But the social factors that _are_ known to have huge effects are the very things that some dominant forces in the culture and government do not want to address. The search for genetic causes of delinquency distracts attention from the real causes, and so is not a "good solution". Lisa Rogers Mihai Christodorescu wrote: I am not an expert in genetics. The experiments described below may be of some use only if they lead to a morally correct and socially efficient solution. If the so-called `deliquency' gene is really responsible for anti-social acts (whatever they might be), a really good solution will be finding a way to "cut" that gene off or at least diminish its action. That is, apply some genetic engineering to prevent the deliquents from developping. [snip] Mihai Christodorescu --- from list marxism2-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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