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I think it is worth a separate research that modern definition of progressive thought considers eliminating/treating a genetic malfunction "unethical".
People are still looking for a genetic link to autism.
The comments on this here make me a bit scared tbh and shows yet again what a bubble this is. You people need to get out more and socialize with actual people.
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Probably in general, but not as much as you'd think. For example as a gay dude, people still hate gay guys (lesbians are far more accepted). But they're just much more quiet about it now, and even if they don't hate us we still "gross" many people out, which affects their decisions due to perception of us.
Unfortunately I think lesbians are only "far more accepted" in the sense that they turn on straight cunts rather than repulse them. The objectification and othering is the same.
"Straight cunts"?
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I do think people - and especially kids - are generally nicer and more accepting than they were back in the 80s when I grew up. I wonder if this is related to the fairly dramatic drop in violent crime statistics we've been seeing over the last several decades?
Lead-free petrol helped.
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You’re right the world is a lot more accepting. No matter how much things improve and how positive the trajectory though, there will be someone online who tells us it’s not enough
Yes, and there will be others rolling their eyes and calling out all this "woke" acceptance. On a serious note, if the world is a lot more accepting, it's mostly because the youngest generations are a lot more accepting, and the more bigoted among us (which tend to skew older) are slowly dying off.
Far too slowly, I might add.
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We live in a largely more accepting world that somehow exists in the same timeframe as "empathy is a sin". No matter how far we come as a society, there will always be people looking to "Make X Great Again" regardless of how great or not X ever was. Unfortunately humanity cannot rest on its laurels. No matter how much we advance as a civilization there will always be a conservative somewhere looking to pull up the la…
You've mis-defined "conservative" to mean "everyone who lost in history".
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No. Down Syndrome leads to an objectively worse outcome for the affected individuals. And their parents, I might add. We should not let compassion for these people obstruct some basic facts. My only consideration would be the potential risks and side effects that are to be expected for any medical intervention. But if we were expecting a child that was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, I would not hesitate for a second t…
> Down Syndrome leads to an objectively worse outcome for the affected individuals. And their parents, I might add. Please cite your sources and show your work. My child with Down syndrome is a giant pain in my ass, I worry about him constantly, and there are days where I wonder “why me?” The same is 100% true about my typically-developing daughter.
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As soon as someone starts ascribing towards a "normal" and using the pronoun "them", warning bells should go berserk.
No. Down Syndrome leads to an objectively worse outcome for the affected individuals. And their parents, I might add. We should not let compassion for these people obstruct some basic facts. My only consideration would be the potential risks and side effects that are to be expected for any medical intervention. But if we were expecting a child that was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, I would not hesitate for a second t…
Down syndrome has nothing to do with parent outcomes. Society refusing to actually provide support is the issue here.
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Correcting what is essentially a developmental defect (albeit a defect that occurs in the germ cells rather than in the womb) isn't eugenics. It's not caused by any genes carried by the parents, it's caused by a failure in the development process, specifically meiosis. Would preventing fetal alcohol syndrome be eugenics? It's caused by changes in gene expression from alcohol exposure after all.
Using a loaded term such as "defect" is exactly eugenics sophistry.
Interesting, I wonder what else this might lead too! Encouraging we might be getting somewhere. I used to live near a Down syndrome center where a bunch of folks lived and I remember this one lady who was kitted out with Britney Spears everything, lunchbox, t-shirt, hat, and headphones. Everyday I passed by the bus stop she would be dancing her heart out to a Britney track waiting for the bus and it made my world a l…
we are going to become very good at this. eliminating genetic errors, choosing to be straight, tall, etc