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To: sense who wrote (156532)4/15/2020 7:34:37 AM
From: Lee Lichterman III1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 217752
 
You say eugenics is bad but what about the other extreme? I could make the argument that eventually we will need some sort of eugenics program due to the advances in medicine and the irresponsibility of the masses.
We are reaching the point where medicine can replace organs, repair DNA, and extend life for once fatal hereditary defects. When a couple is unable to have children, we say it is a human right to breed and give them artificial fertilization often times resulting in more children than normal methods
The long term effects of this are blatently obvious and totally counter to Darwinism. We are basically breeding a weaker and weaker species that left unchecked would eventually be wiped out by some minor bug. Do we push it to the point that a smudge that was an early term miscarriage of a defective embryo in a Petri dish is declared by law to be feasible and grown in a lab?
I have seen cases where children with 7 or more defective organs had transplants done trying to extend their lives. These were not disease or accidents but hereditary flaws. How many people could have been saved that were otherwise healthy but needed those organs due to a disease or accident but didn't receive them because a person nature was trying to delete from the genome was being saved?
I don't know where to draw the line but eventually there is going to have to be a controversial panel of experts that will have to draw that line. Do you not save someone with over 5 defects, 6, 7, 10? Do you save everyone but sterilize them so they can't continue to pass the issues to future generations? I've seen too many parents that knew full well they were going to have "special" kids yet had 5-6 of them.
I know this isn't PC but it is reality. We have to draw the line somewhere.
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