At the risk of needling the old Oxon boar Prof Dawkins, I do think this old trend of locating the moral cypher and the conscience trip-wire in the endocrine system or the junk gene for lunacy is a tad dated and now over-blown - besides Dawkins went out in the Noughties - design in an inert molecule is an absurd idea that Dawkins has peppered with the moda of respectability though all geneticists would call his theory of the selfish gene absurd if not selfish.

German SS clinicians tried to airbrush the conscience out of social and political and medicare life in the Thirties before the start of their mad war on the rest of Europe - for much the same rationale - as will soon emerge from the archives over in Austria, so we can put this new effort to remove the conscience from public life to one side - it is simple another stab in favour of the know-all, decide-all state - all encompassing, all-efficient, but clinically a tyrant.

Try discussing these junk gene and junk endocrine theories in the light of the cries of beautiful young yiddish and italian and slav children as they were marched into the chambers of Dachau - as previously discussed and clinically anaesthetised by the German version of the Daily Mail - all those “horrible johnny foreigners” that merited a final clinical solution? We will learn to rationate logically one day I hope - those of us who had little friends in Dachau.

As my Afro girlfriend says of this era - just too blind to believe - where are the children of CCCP Russia - they are all dead too at the hands of cold ethically-air-brushed clinicians. Do we also need an Anti-Nazi League in Russia?

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