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Old 19th October 2006, 03:00 AM   #30 (permalink)
Saltheart
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Re: genetic discrimination

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Originally Posted by jackokent
But as others and I have said, by eliminating a gene, that at first to us looks like an illness or useless, we could be halting a necessary evolutionary developement.

Of course if I could cure a myself or a loved one through this method I would, without hesiation, but that doesn't mean it would be a good thing for society as a whole.
Then consider this: if a person had no will to live because the disorder is critical enough to make the said genuinely suicidal, it would be best to just cure the disorder: Leprosy, Huntington's, etc.

Not for mere changes like curing a cold, but actual ones that leave a person not only crippled physically, but emotionally too due to alienation and futility.
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