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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts

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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (80044)6/7/2023 11:12:56 AM
From: Lee Lichterman III  Read Replies (1) of 97963
 
You wouldn't like my view on that. I don't know the answer but there's probably a better way somewhere between the two extremes that is not socially acceptable or PC yet common sense and medically relevant.
Psychological disorders and many disabilities are genetic and get passed on. The US had a eugenics program prior to WW2 that produced "the greatest generation". It ended after the Nazi atrocities.

With gene editing, we could probably do something but now everyone is special and no one is inferior even though it is obvious they are. We do multiple organ transplants on someone nature never meant to survive much less breed and pass on the defective genes. We are undoing darwinism and to take it to the extreme, could potentially reach a point where we're born useless gobs of goo in a dish that has to be reassembled into something feasible eventually.
Medical science is improving to the point that sometime in the future, we are going to have to make hard choices on where to draw the line.
We already do in legal circles. I mean, look at mental illness and crime. Some mental illness will get you off but isn't every murderer/rapist mentally ill? They're definitely not normal. Why is there DWI/DUI? The accused was under the influence of a substance KNOWN to affect judgement. They were chemically retarded. Lines have to be drawn for the good of society and to protect others. Medicine is no different. Eventually the burden is going to be too great to save everyone no matter how severe the issue. Maybe that's where AI could be useful. An emotionless analytical decision maker that weighs the future threat to society and decides to save the person so they live somewhat normal life but is sterilized to not pass on the defective genes.
I'm sure this is going to piss a lot of people off but as I said, unchecked, we are going to breed ourselves into oblivion eventually. Survival of the weakest doesn't work.
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