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Dollars to donuts industry will use this to screen employees, insurance companies will use it to deny coverage, and people won’t date you without a prescreen. I
by patientplatypus 7y ago
Dollars to donuts industry will use this to screen employees, insurance companies will use it to deny coverage, and people won’t date you without a prescreen. I’m almost to the point that I fear any new technology by default because I immediately think of all the ways society could turn it towards evil.
Paraphrasing Einstein our capacity for increases in human knowledge far outweighs our capacity for increases in human compassion.
- extra88 7y ago> people won’t date you without a prescreen Most people don't do that for STIs today so why would they do it for genetic predisposition of heritable diseases?
- mieseratte 7y agoHell, pre-screening as a concept was taught to me in a biology class 10+ years ago with one example being (some) Jewish communities implementing genetic counseling as a pre-screen before marriage to avoid unwell offspring, e.g. Tay-Sachs. Organizations[0] exist for this purpose already. The ethics of this as a situation was taught by watching and discussing Gattaca, a movie from 1997. Certainly not a new idea nor concern. It is a reality, though not quite widespread. Perhaps we will open new societal cans of worm through mass-market, rapid screening. As I write this, somewhat reminds me of the internet. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Yeshorim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dor_Yeshorim
- dekhn 7y agoIt's currently illegal in the US to use genetics for screening for health insurance (legal for life insurance). Maybe your fear that new tech will be used for evil is coming from all the negative articles which immediately jump to assuming things will be used "for evil".