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If your disability had been repaired with, say, CRISPR, you'd be alive right now and without that disability. Had your disability been removed via "selection",
by nsxwolf 9y ago
If your disability had been repaired with, say, CRISPR, you'd be alive right now and without that disability. Had your disability been removed via "selection", you wouldn't exist.
- tanilama 9y agoThe same argument would also be used to ban abortion, just you know.
- tonmoy 9y agoAnd morning after pills
- ng12 9y agoYou're technically right for some definition of "me", but I don't think that's a particularly useful way to think about it. My parents would have instead had a healthier version of "me".
- eloisius 9y agoIf it was "repaired" with CRISPR, would the person that is ng12 exist, or would some other child belonging to ng12's parents exist? Are we not a product of our experiences, or do you really think every zygote is endowed with some kind or unique soul?
- WillPostForFood 9y agoReplace "unique soul" with "unique set of genetic attributes."
- mmirate 9y agoEven though I've no disabilities per se, I would gladly trade my own existence for that of a genetically-superior sibling.
- mmirate 9y ago(Being a superior being, such a sibling would deserve their existence more than I do mine.)