Im seriously considering getting a membership.
Regardless of the pass. 30 bucks a month. Its less than I spend on weed in a month, but its kinda hard for me to say yes when I have only 900 bucks to my name. I dont really have to pay any bills, excluding my part of the phone bill, so I have 900...
lose weight.
id love to get back to dancing shape but ill still be fat, and dancing isnt cheap.
So losing weight is important. I hate not being able to find clothes that I like and want to wear. Hate the way I look before I get into the shower. Plus I kinda wanna lose weight to make myself...
perhaps your confusing racism with predjuidice.
Best definition of racism I have ever heard "Prejudice+Power"
everyone can be prejudice, based off of skin color etc.
But to claim racism there has to be some kind of systematic discrimination.
funny i see this thread today.
a friend of mine gave me a 45 day pass to the gym.
I am scared as fuck.
I have always qualified as "obese" but back in high school, I had crazy strength in my legs, great flexiblity (able to do splits in every direction and roll throughs), I had decent stamina...
the purpose is to have children who grow up to be our conception of happy, well adjusted, "normal'. They could have all medical problems fixed, behaviors prone to what we consider bad in our society to be conditioned away. its a terrifying thought
i agree, its not about money, finland does it with less money than we do. there has to be a shift within the parents, within the society. money isnt the key, its involvement and positive reinforcement that build a good student.
this raises the question of nature vs nuture.
instead of engineering them in the womb, can we let them be born how they were meant to be, but mold and shape them with science to be what we want?
i know its horrible. there are many pluses and minuses to genetic engineering, and all science can be used to hurt more than it helps. but i highly doubt that will happen if we fucking fix the way we educate our children, giving them a lacking education
i never said it was realistic, just conjecture. based off of discussions ive had in class. i do think there are ethical issues, but the whole dominating upper class is just speculation
classism? i was just stating something that could hypothetically happen, i have no problem with rich people. they earned what they got. but im not talking about the people you know. im talking about hypothetical people in a world where genetic engineering is possible, and the possible outcomes...
farenheit 451?
i think you're thinking of a brave new world.
farenheit 451 shows the impact of media and etc on society, a lessening of intelligence and rules
the rich would have the engineered babies, the poor would breed inferior babies, fuck, they could even have certain genes introduced into their gene pool.