I’m not certain if Native American Gangs or casinos owned by Native American tribes do more harm to the heritage of a once proud nation. Both gangs and casinos serve two evil masters — money and power — and in the end, the result is always emotional evisceration and a disgraced death.
Our blood knows our secrets and foretells our health. Sometimes we’re told the now of the being of our bloodstream — high cholesterol, bad thyroid, liver complications — but what if our blood could tell us today, how we’ll end up in the future? Would you want your blood to tell your longevity status? Or would you prefer to live only in the now?
When I taught Public Health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, I remember one day when the school was having a “Bone Marrow Drive” to help an employee stricken with cancer. You could sign up for a free bone marrow screening to see if you were a match and, if you were not, your bone marrow would be placed in a database for future reference. Bone marrow transplants are expensive, and painful, for both donor and recipient, but in many ways, that marrow is the manna of life.
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First, we thought we only had six Founding Mothers for Native Americans. Today, we know we have at least 15 Founding Mothers — and that only helps to enhance the ideal of the original Founding Fathers.
Do we want to regulate artificial life? Or should we simply let new lifeforms evolve as they must and come into being as they want to join us, destroy us, or find their end with us?
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