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Is it malicious to abort a baby before it has a heartbeat at six weeks because it will have Downs syndrome?
A few stats I just looked up on people with downs syndrome: - Over 90% of children are enrolled in public school. - 79% of those are in general education classrooms. - Approx. 50% of adults are employed.
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your class C adolescent has been identified as being an eligible kidney donor for a Class B worker, congratulations! please book into your nearest hospital within 2 days
This dystopian thought is wrong learning from dystopian fiction. I know it felt clever writing it, surely many found it clever cynicism, but in no way does it reflect real life kidney donations.
https://www.dw.com/en/inside-a-global-organ-trafficking-netw...
it’s fair to say there would be great advances from such a programme, I’m personally in favour of medical surveillance generally for this reason but you have to be realistic about outcomes
It’s happening, isn’t it? And we’re just lazily walking toward it. Passkeys. They’re part of the move toward digital ids aren’t they? I bet we’ll see these digital ids bundle a password/key manager, instead of being inside one. And have your dna, faceid and touchid.
If I wrote this just 5 years ago, you’d think I was crazy. But now? Tsk.
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The issue is where do you draw the line with 2)? What does "improve the genetic characteristics of your children" mean in practice? Everyone starts with 2) and then it creeps into 1).
There is no path that turns "I would like to terminate my pregnancy if the outcome is unfavorable" into "I would like to commit genocide on everyone whose genetics I do not like". Granted, someone who already wishes for or aligns with the idea of ethnic cleansing might start by only publicly sharing their wish for the former to begin with, but I don't see a sensible argument for it being a natural extension of the fo…
In a some way this is already happening (eg Judges forcing cochlea implants on babies while denying the parents support in learning/teaching sign language to the child)
Many people see this as an attack on the deaf community and their culture - and I have to agree.
This is just one step away from eugenics. When the data is in the machine, you just know it will be used for malicious activities.
> Almost all commercially sold bananas (the Cavendish variety) are exact genetic clones
It made me feel a bit funny: I was the weirdo for being AGAINST this, and it seemed like any arguments I put forward were dead on arrival.