Subj : Re: Canadian oil
To   : Digital Man
From : Finnigann
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 18:29:00

-=> Digital Man wrote to Angus McLeod <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: Canadian oil
 DM>   By: Angus McLeod to Ralph Smole on Fri Sep 02 2005 08:37 am

 >   Re: Re: Canadian oil
 >   By: Ralph Smole to Deuce on Thu Sep 01 2005 21:29:00
 >
 >  >  >  > you're not Amish, by any chance?
 >  >  >
 >  >  > No, why?
 >  >
 >  > What is wrong with the Amish lifestyle?
 >
 > Since you are the first person to imply that there *is* something wrong
 > with the Amish lifestyle, perhaps YOU should say what?

 DM> I'll say what: their inbreeding is causes an abnormally high occurance
 DM> of birth defects and retardation in their children. And since they're
 DM> anti-technology they refuse to use proven methods of detecting defects
 DM> in embryos (possibly in time to abort) or genetic testing to determine
 DM> who shouldn't be having kids with whom. They don't believe in birth
 DM> control (or abortion), so they continue to have tons of defective
 DM> children. It's very sad.

Not to dispute you but in this neck of the woods (so to speak) there are large
communities of Amish / Menonite familes. I don't think inbredding is such a
problemhere. 

The other concerns are troubleing and many families DO take advantage of modern
medicene but not all. Slowly they are entering the 20th century.

I guess it's a god thing again.

And tieing this in with the original thread... If we did revert back to
something like the Amish have today, we can say goodbye to such med marvels
like this.

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