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Comment author: mattnewport 12 July 2010 08:57:40PM 3 points [-]

How many resources are we spending to save and improve lives of the mentally retarded? My cursory research has over half a billion U.S. dollars in the United States in the year 2002.

Surely the US spends more on healthcare than that?

Comment author: RobinZ 12 July 2010 09:09:19PM 0 points [-]

About a thousand times more by the government on health care, yes. This is just the estimates I found of governmental spending on people with mental retardation.

Comment author: mattnewport 12 July 2010 09:52:32PM 0 points [-]

Too subtle.

Comment author: RobinZ 12 July 2010 10:07:49PM 1 point [-]

I thought I was quite explicit. AlexM implied that future posthumans would not be interested in reviving comparatively moronic predecessors by suggesting their attitude towards these would be akin to our attitude towards apes. I suggested that the more appropriate analogy would be to human beings with developmental disabilities, for whom substantial sums of public money are spent. What's overly subtle about that?

Comment author: mattnewport 12 July 2010 10:11:35PM 3 points [-]

I meant I was too subtle. It was a joke. Apparently a failed one.

Comment author: RobinZ 12 July 2010 10:13:59PM 3 points [-]

Oh, yeah. That is clever. Probably would have worked better in person.

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