Nat Hentoff hits it on the head:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0008/hentoff.shtml

-- Charles Underwood Farley (chuck@u.farley), February 24, 2000

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I understand that the unspoken standard in Europe and China is no one over 40 as a new hire, especially in government positions. It would be very plausible, wouldn't it? The Good Life for the healthy and productive.(No Mo' welfare, no suh!)Over a certain age and it's off to the Soylent Green plant. Bye, Ma!

Then there are all those political undesirables, like the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"...

Say! This is fun! We could set a genetic standard! Eliminate all those pesky little handicaps like baldness, glasses, acne,crooked teeth, flat chests and short penises and short people, too!

-- chairborne commando (what-me-worry@armageddon.com), February 24, 2000.

First the fetus, then the newborns...not to mention the elderly...all don't have the same right to live as "the rest of us" according to this mentality.

Sickening...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), February 25, 2000.