Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA
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"We want to be strong, but is it right to rely on steroids? We want to be cheerful all the time, but is it right to live without the experience of melancholy? We want a pill that helps us to better remember everything we want and to forget pain and embarrassment, but what does a selective memory do to our character? We all want our children to be smart and attractive and skillful, but is it right to bestow these qualities on them genetically and chemically — or to let them gain the satisfaction of coping with shortcomings and earning the good life?"<p>--- from a wonderful column today by William Safire
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