They are constantly reassigning power to themselves. The courts are the most conservative and easiest to bribe branch of government, so that’s where they and the conservative movement generally want all the power. At least the legislature has some fear of their bad behavior causing them to lose an election, those judges are in there for life.
Right rocket launchers are definitely not weapons of mass destruction. WMDs are generally restricted to the categories of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, with even chemical being a bit of an edge case in terms of whether it really counts as “mass destruction.”
Also I don’t think the Soviets were ever giving the Palestinian resistance rocket launchers either, though not as sure about that as about the WMDs.
Israel is a military ally of who? They United States? You do not have a responsibility to support countries that your country makes military alliances with. And in that case in particular, Israel is a giant weight around America’s neck, endlessly drawing it into conflicts while giving back nothing of value. Even if you don’t care at all about Palestinians, pure geopolitics recommends the US cut Israel loose.
The Teamsters said Wednesday that high-stakes talks with UPS over a new contract for more than 340,000 workers have fallen apart after the company presented an offer that union negotiators deemed badly inadequate....
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Huh those are both strange examples - was Bashir harmed in any way by his genetic augmentations other than having to face social prejudice for them? Seems like he's a success story, selflessly putting his enhanced gifts to work for the greater good. If only we had a 1000 more like him! The situation where society is deciding what's normal and banning deviations is the one where people like him are prevented from existing.
As for Geordi, you realize that he did in fact cure his blindness with his implants, which give him not just normal vision but better than normal vision? Another example of the benefits of allowing a different sort of voluntary body modification.
There just aren't any real arguments for banning this sort of voluntary gene editing, beyond perhaps a ban on giving children harmful traits.
You can see that you're just doing what I described and making an argument solely based on "eugenics" being a broad term that includes evil things right? What is the concern you have about letting parents modify their unborn child's genes, besides the fact that it could ungenerously be described as eugenics?
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