Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "It's Alive, But Is It Life: Synthetic Biology and the Future of Creation" video.

  1. Regarding the question at 59:33: my goodness, "All men are created equal" is rhetoric. No men are created equal except identical twins and even they do not remain equal in certain regards. The only possibility of equality among humans is equality before the law, and equality of those aspects of society that we intentionally determine to impose degrees of equality upon, such as healthcare etc. And we have fallen woefully short in our beliefs and actual enactments of these. Before the law there are the power elite and their enablers, and the capite censi: two classes as distinct as the nobles and the peasants of the Dark Ages, and as the recent studies verify: which are so embedded in our plutocratic kleptocracy as to be ambient and go unnoticed until there is trouble. No problem until there is trouble may as we be the slogan of the power elite. The species is weeping for a neoConfusian technomeritocracy the world over, yet the power hungry psychopaths remain the leaders of our culture world-wide.
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