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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Insurance
  • Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:09:27 -0700


You guys seem to be on the extreme end of the spectrum and not allow anything for genetics.

If I did not allow anything for genetics why would I do exercises to avoid my father's fate?

It occurs to me that we are being simplistic. We are assuming that each of us has a similar definition of genetics. Consider what genetics is, where it comes from, how it acts. Not Mendelian genetics, which btw were with plants, but commonsense knowledge about how people live and how their children tend to be subject to the same environmental conditions and the same nutrition and exercise habits. What we call genetics may well be related in cause and effect to what we call instinct. When a pattern is repeated for generations it has reason to be replicated again. The simplest example I can think of is diet. Who among us has not been influenced by how our parents supplied family diet? And where did they get their ideas on the subject? How far back might go the habit of eating a particular diet or preparation style? But yesterday's diet fed active people. Today?

In all ways we are the product of all that has been before. Today we have different environmental, dietary, transportation conditions than did our ancestors. Today we have vast information, we have substantial free will, we have choice. We make decisions daily and we live or die with the results.

My effort here has been to offer what I have found so far that works for me so I think it has value. I'm glad to have riled a few people up. Thinking is good. Apathy is deadly.





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