I definitely think eugenics will eventually become a not-uncommon thing, but it will never be universal due to some folks' ethical concerns and the prohibitive expense for others.
As a visibly disabled person, I also know it will not solve all the problems people think and/or hope it will. Within this calendar year, I came within a couple feet of also becoming a double-amputee due to a drunk driver that headed straight for me at a 4-way and accelerated. What are people going to do at that point? Call for my execution for acquiring another disability and thereby offending their relevant sensibilities?
At the conferences of the Spina Bifida Association and all its state and regional chapters, there is less of an emphasis on a cure, and more of one on QOL (quality of life) issues, both surgical and therapeutic. This is the most reasonable and most helpful tack that can be taken for folks like me. A cure will not happen for a long time (at least a viable, safe, and palatable cure). But tomorrow will happen. Tomorrow. And that's soon. Best to think about quality of life more than a cure.
As a visibly disabled person, I also know it will not solve all the problems people think and/or hope it will. Within this calendar year, I came within a couple feet of also becoming a double-amputee due to a drunk driver that headed straight for me at a 4-way and accelerated. What are people going to do at that point? Call for my execution for acquiring another disability and thereby offending their relevant sensibilities?
At the conferences of the Spina Bifida Association and all its state and regional chapters, there is less of an emphasis on a cure, and more of one on QOL (quality of life) issues, both surgical and therapeutic. This is the most reasonable and most helpful tack that can be taken for folks like me. A cure will not happen for a long time (at least a viable, safe, and palatable cure). But tomorrow will happen. Tomorrow. And that's soon. Best to think about quality of life more than a cure.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
