RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
August 12, 2017 at 6:07 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2017 at 6:07 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(August 11, 2017 at 4:08 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 11, 2017 at 1:32 pm)Hammy Wrote: I'm one of them.
Yours isn't something that can be seen on a baby though, so this wouldn't apply to you because autism cannot be detected on babies. You're suggesting that babies who have something visibly wrong with them should be allowed to be killed.
I can't think of a single circumstances where the conditions I laid out should be applied. *
I'm a consequentalist so in theory there's a condition where anything could be justified. But many things in practice never happen.
It's all about minimizing suffering for me. I can't yet think of a case where euthenizing an infant would produce less suffering.
I mean, because it's a little more complex than just minimizing suffering because the good opportunities in life that are missed out on is important too. And disabled people have many many good opportunities.
* Actually... If it was a condition where they're literally paralyzed and in extreme pain all their life, I think a painless death early on would be better than a lifetime of intense pain and paralysis. So I guess that's one example I can think of.
