http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070830/K083002AU.html A baby is born with 12 fingers and 12 toes - is it right for the parents to have the extra digits surgically removed, or should they wait for the child to make his own decision later on? This might be an evolutionarily beneficial mutation. They might be sabotaging evolution.
Even if they have the chopped, he woudl still pass the gene on. By the way, uless they were directly physically detrimental in some way, I wouldn't chop them.
Yes, of course, but also if chopped he would not be doing anything useful like learning how to efficiently use the extra digits. Hence he wouldn't be able to pass his freak learnin' on to his freak child.
Did you learn to use your 5 digits by mimicking your parents? When I look at my children growing up they mostly learn to use their digits by doing stuff with them. In fact the fetus is already practising motor control before he enters the world. It seems unlikely to assume someone went into the vagina to show the fetus how to make a fist. Some behavioural patterns are learned, some motoric skills are copied. Some are tought. Using a hand with extra digits doesn't seem quite the leap that requires the didactic intervention of a parental unit. of course, this is just my opinion
Finally, a child is born who will be able to relate to the formally English, adopted American system of mismeasurement. All he'll need to do is come up numbers to follow 12, in base 12. It's a sign from Egad. Oh, well. He surely doesn't want that foreskin either. What did he say? "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" No matter. Surely the metric system will finally become accepted in the US in his lifetime, and penis mutilations will stay trendy.
I think they may be surgically altering an evolutionary mutation. Who says extra fingers and toes are bad??
i wouldnt chop them of, would let my child decide that later in his/her life! anyway has anyone got any pictures?
picture. You can barely see his pinkie. I would have it cut off if it wasn't functional. But if there was bone in it connected to the hand bones, its staying. This baby's extra digits aren't functional. 6 fingered hand. Here's a functional one.
I think it would be cool...I could finally count a dozen donuts without using my toes. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! "Hey man...give me six!"
I do not believe everything in the handme-down accounts of the "bible", on the topic of six fingers it is quite clear. To use another well used modern quote: "Even the sun shine's on a dog's ass twice a day". The Hebrew history was correct on accounts of Jericho, of Hittites, of Philistines long before science proved them true: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
