gitana1, if you actually -read- my posts, perhaps you might find less grounds for a kneejerk judgement of me being "evil".
I'll save you the trouble and recap:
I'm of a scientific mind, and thus I do advocate experiments that help reveal mysteries regarding human evolution and history.
But I'm also a mother, and any child I bore would receive my full devotion as a mother. If this was not acceptable, I would not participate.
Hope that helps.
That's not what you stated in your post. You stated that kids are abused every day, so essentially, who cares if a kid was bred for science.
Also, I never said you were evil. I said the act would be evil. And it would be.
Snipped by me.
Genie wasn't born for scientific experiment... She was a horribly abused child that was chained to a toilet for 13 years.
The scientific community tried to teach her linguistic skills and try to help her have a normal life. There was no abuse from the scientists, until they lost funding they tried to give her the most comfortable life she could live.
No, Genie was not born for a scientific experiment but if you think those scientists did not abuse her and instead tried to give her a comfortable life either before or after they lost funding, you are sorely mistaken.
I urge you to read Genie: A Scientific Tragedy. Yes, Genie was abused. But it wasn't just by her parents.
After the hospital, Genie was initially placed with a calm and loving foster mother who lived on the beach and just loved Genie, stroked her, kissed her, let her learn at her pace, introduced her slowly to different experiences, etc. Genie was incredibly happy there and developed quickly.
But the scientists disliked the foster mom who was protective and didn't want Genie poked and prodded and used for experiments. So, they sought to use the government to wrest her from her loving and quiet foster home. She was placed in the home of two researchers. She was terrified of dogs. They had a large one, but no matter. She was forced to work endlessly in a lab, day after day, as they drilled her on new words and concepts.
I have watched video of this. Genie was not treated in a loving manner and her exhaustion or anxieties were ignored. Genie regressed emotionally. She became unable to progress past a certain level linguistically. Then, immediately when the money dried up, Genie was placed back with her mother in the very home that had been her prison.
Genie, when she was initially rescued from her home, was a bright-eyed, sensitive-faced, attractive, inquisitive and gentle child full of love and curiosity and even intelligence.
Genie now resides in a foster home not far from where I live and when visited by the author, she gazed at him with "cow-like incomprehension". She was muted, depressed, had none of the language she once knew and was horribly overweight with an ugly haircut like people used to have in institutions in the 40's and 50's.
This is what scientific ambition did for Genie. This is what lack of love did to her, both before and after her rescue. Had she been left alone she may have recovered much more than she did at the hands of the researchers. She was starting to when they yanked her from a place of healing and gentle learning, to a lab.
