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Being wired to think that way doesn't make it right under any light whatsoever; and I never say anything about enforcing anything; that's where the slippery slo

Being wired to think that way doesn't make it right under any light whatsoever; and I never say anything about enforcing anything; that's where the slippery slope starts by you and everyone else who thinks the same, where people pretend you are talking about enforcing, but you are just bringing the _option_ of not having children as a valid way to end the suffering, because even talking about such option brings all the hatred when it should be seen as a logical way to avoid suffering without stepping on the rights of anyone to reproduce.

ejstronge 8y ago
Your approach might reduce the rates of these genetic illnesses, but it would not eradicate them, as most commmon genetic illnesses have a non-negligible rate of spontaneous occurrence.
- st26 8y ago
  Do we know if latent precursors combine, or is it really spontaneous/random?
  - ejstronge 8y ago
    Great question! I would wager that both occur. Each disease will have slightly different genetics, but Huntington's disease provides a good example. There, we know that some individuals have a predisposition to developing the disease - this bias results from having over a certain threshold of repeating DNA bases in the Huntingtin gene. Here's an accessible discussion of Huntington's and similar diseases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175376/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175376/ .
trcollinson 8y ago
Sorry I might not have made it clear, I just understand the reason why people scorn you for your opinion. I think your opinion is at least somewhat valid and has merit. At the very least I think that it is worth debating and shouldn’t be met with scorn. As a few have pointed out the slippery slope argument is a bad one. They are right. The slippery slope could be a logical fallacy. But logical fallacies often lead to scorning and anger and fights and such.

ejstronge 8y ago

Your approach might reduce the rates of these genetic illnesses, but it would not eradicate them, as most commmon genetic illnesses have a non-negligible rate of spontaneous occurrence.

st26 8y ago
Do we know if latent precursors combine, or is it really spontaneous/random?
- ejstronge 8y ago
  Great question! I would wager that both occur. Each disease will have slightly different genetics, but Huntington's disease provides a good example. There, we know that some individuals have a predisposition to developing the disease - this bias results from having over a certain threshold of repeating DNA bases in the Huntingtin gene. Here's an accessible discussion of Huntington's and similar diseases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175376/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175376/ .

trcollinson 8y ago

Sorry I might not have made it clear, I just understand the reason why people scorn you for your opinion. I think your opinion is at least somewhat valid and has merit. At the very least I think that it is worth debating and shouldn’t be met with scorn. As a few have pointed out the slippery slope argument is a bad one. They are right. The slippery slope could be a logical fallacy. But logical fallacies often lead to scorning and anger and fights and such.