RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
August 12, 2017 at 5:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2017 at 5:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Unfortunately, the two can, in some instances, be the same. We routinely sentence people to lives of pain and misery for kneejerk reasons about "beating odds" even when there are no odds to be beaten, only the grinding certainty of our own frailty and mortality.
The bits about an overpopulated planet are a needless addendum (people attach their hobby causes for reasons™), it wouldn't matter if there were very few of us wih plenty of space and resources, the above would still be true in those instances. Every single one of us is born to die, some of us die sooner than the others, and live in agony in that short interim. For at least some of them, death would be a release. Rather than accept the reality of our situation we make it a criminal offense for these people's lives to end.
The bits about an overpopulated planet are a needless addendum (people attach their hobby causes for reasons™), it wouldn't matter if there were very few of us wih plenty of space and resources, the above would still be true in those instances. Every single one of us is born to die, some of us die sooner than the others, and live in agony in that short interim. For at least some of them, death would be a release. Rather than accept the reality of our situation we make it a criminal offense for these people's lives to end.
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