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Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:04 am
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Looking into the future of our understanding of the
human genome I see a time coming when we will be
able to treat abnormalities while the baby is still in
the womb.
If we can go this far it would eliminate any need
for "choice" concerning life. We would be saying
yes to all life.
This will be going beyond the genetic screening of the
parents to determine if they can accept the risk of
their children having abnormalities. For if they
have them they could be corrected before birth.
This way the choice would always be for life/procreation.
Everyone could have children. And if there happens to
be a problem it will be fixed. |
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Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:34 am
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| However, what make this world a pleasant place to live in are our diversities. What fun do you get from something you know from start it will be perfect? Better yet, when you say “perfect” you do a comparison, right? “That chick has perfect legs!” Because comparing to average, their legs are great. When say “you are healthy, this is big and this is fun” in every adjective there is an underlying compare test. So, perfect people, means no fun. And no fun is not good news… |
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Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:04 am
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Jose I am not talking about perfect people; and especially not designer people. That is ethically appalling.
But what I do see is problems corrected.
What I am suggesting is the practical and most moral side of genetic manipulation. |
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Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:30 am
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| Nick wrote: |
Jose I am not talking about perfect people; and especially not designer people. That is ethically appalling.
But what I do see is problems corrected.
What I am suggesting is the practical and most moral side of genetic manipulation. |
{side note} Nick, please check your hidden demarcations (shift + enter), you insert uncalled for many of these in your posts.
I have been correcting some of them for you, but it is exhausting, especially when it is almost expected.
{on topic}
Ok, so Jose misunderstood you, but why? It implied forced corrections, which when generalised must lead to the inevitable.
A couple that do not rise to the standards of scanning their genetic code for estimating the probability of genetic defective offspring, are least expectable to have the means or the cultural level of finding anything in time to be of any corrective usefulness.
That is precisely why Jose might have thought that you meant a governmental or global genetic control.
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Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:16 pm
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I am not talking about global genetic control Either Hemetis. There would be no standards. Everyone could have children because everything will be correctable.
What would you rather have: (forced) correction or termination?
You missed my point! 
What would you have against the ideal?
And what are you talking about hidden demarcations? |
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Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:56 am
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| What do you guys think of Gattaca? |
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