yet patents have been granted for ways of doing novel things with those materials.
Pray explain exactly what novel ways of doing novel things with the discovered gene has occurred here to make it patentable?The ability to assign legal status to genes offers the advantage of declaring particular genes dangerous, whether 'natural' or not, and requiring their removal from the gene pool for the Greater Good:
btw.. what is meant by a "patented gene"? ... what does it imply? would anyone explain it to me, please?
I didn't say that wood, stone, etc. are patentable. I said that certain ways of *using* these pre-existing substances, in modified forms, are sometimes patentable.Wood, stone, and even naturally-occurring metal were not created by humans either, yet patents have been granted for ways of doing novel things with those materials.You cannot patent wood, stone, water, air, fire, etc. Natural processes/substances are not patentable -- and should not be. DNA is on the same order as wood, stone, water, etc. It is a natural substance created by natural processes.
Pray explain exactly what novel ways of doing novel things with the discovered gene has occurred here to make it patentable?Oops---I was thinking of genes that are synthetic (artificially modified or built from scratch), not simply discovered. Indeed, mere discovery should not be reason for a patent!
See Otto's post for a prime example of this potential evil, as Otto is about an evil, genocidal person as you can find, and bears witness of it right here, proudly, for everyone to see.Yeah, QC would be all for weeding out genes which might cause homosexuality but not sociopathy. I suppose he considers them the same thing.
Yeah, QC would be all for weeding out genes which might cause homosexuality but not sociopathy. I suppose he considers them the same thing.
I don't consider homosexuality a genetic disorder. It's a choice that people make, and contrary to nature.No. That which occurs naturally is not contrary to nature. It's NOT a choice--it's a discovery. Ask some gay people about it, and bring an open mind with you (if you can find one).
Not only is [the death penalty] the right thing for the individual, but it's the right thing for civilization.Provided, of course, that the condemned are incontrovertibly shown to be guilty. Consider the fact that DNA evidence has exonerated many people awaiting execution for murder.
If our civilization would quit accepting every perverted lifestyle choice that comes down the pipe for PC reasons, this would be considered a mental disorder like it used to be, and they'd be counseled and treated against their perversion.You should say: If our civilization would open its eyes (and hearts), and achieve non-prejudicial understanding, it would never again mis-classify victims of a hormonal "oops" in utero. There would be no "perversion" needing anyone's narrow-minded "treatment".
Did you see on HLN the new "transgendered" 5th grade boy wants to go in the girls bathroom at school? Why should the girls be required to deal with this?Why should the girls care? When they're using the bathroom, they're concealed in stalls anyway. They're not able to see what kind of genitalia are in use.
Silverhill
Nov 30, 2012Some of the precursor molecules for various plastics are natural too, yet patents have been granted for derivative molecules.
The naturalness of a substance should not be a sufficient criterion for rejecting patents covering novel use thereof.
Now, whether genes should be patentable is another issue, yet to be fully resolved.