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> Science is making such views obsolete. What Science is making is a new reality for which our ethical and legal frameworks may not be best suited, and we need
by tremendo 10y ago
> Science is making such views obsolete.
What Science is making is a new reality for which our ethical and legal frameworks may not be best suited, and we need to ask ourselves questions about how best to address the inadequacies of our current standards. It's not enough to just throw our arms up and say "views obsolete", they have after all served us well for the entirety of history. Yes we need to reconsider them now, so… "questions remain".
> It is highly unlikely to happen, or to cause any clinical manifestations.
Ok, says you, based on… ?
- maxerickson 10y agothey have after all served us well for the entirety of history. That's a pretty goddamn extreme claim.
- laretluval 10y agoThe view that a child can only be produced by two parents of opposite sex has served us very well in terms of making children. Until very recently, if you believed otherwise, you might have had a lot of trouble producing children.
- maxerickson 10y agoDo you have anything to say about the ethical and legal frameworks that the post I replied to was talking about?