Reminds me of the great anecdote: After the casting of Patrick Stewart, someone said to Gene Roddenberry, 'By the 24th century, won't they have cured baldness?’
Roddenberry replied, 'By the 24th century, they won't care'.
Curing a disability at birth is not eugenics. Wtf?
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.
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.
I suppose. I honestly wasn't even thinking of gene therapy. Not all cures for disabilities would necessarily require gene therapy.
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
I would have. In a heartbeat.
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
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.
Wait a sec, what was Tilly’s disability? I can’t remember, I just thought she had a bit of a shit upbringing with her mum.
Also, don’t think I’d bring up Julian against ableists in this argument 🙄
I would imagine they are referring to her being neurodivergent. Think it was a single line in the first or second episode (when her and the main character are introduced as roommates). Easy to miss for sure.
Depends on your definition of 'disability', but I guess they meant because she's visibly overweight, but that doesn't mean she can't be in Starfleet.
Idiot: well why can't they just alter genes to do away with disabilities?
Me remembering the group of genetically modified individuals who came out with more neurological problems: they have several episodes on why you can't do that
they have several episodes on why you ~~can't~~ shouldn't do that
Fixed that for you.
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