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[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Curing a disability at birth is not eugenics. Wtf?

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 months ago

There is a minor arc with Bashir in the later half of DS9 where it comes out that he's been genetically altered as a child to become smarter. It gets a lot into the ethics of changing someone who couldn't consent to being altered and also deals with others who didn't have as successful of a modification.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't it technically be if they are genetic disorders? To fix it you'd have to be doing some degree of intentional directing of human genes.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I suppose. I honestly wasn't even thinking of gene therapy. Not all cures for disabilities would necessarily require gene therapy.

[-] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

if it's not life-threatening it can easily turn into eugenics. if my autism was deleted at birth, I wouldn't have consented to that procedure

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I would have. In a heartbeat.

[-] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

YIKES sounds like you have some problems to work through. keep that to yourself though instead of projecting it onto the disabled community at large

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

YIKES sounds like you have some problems to work through

Are you for real? Just because I don't like my disability you say I have "problems"? Would you say that to someone with a congenital heart defect? Or cerebral palsy? JFC! I'm not allowed to not enjoy my disability? Go fuck yourself. Judegemental asshole. Keep your opinions about my disability to yourself.

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