Okay, fair enough: that was a shit way for me to make a point. There's nothing wrong with preferring that people have the ability to communicate with others (v

Okay, fair enough: that was a shit way for me to make a point. There's nothing wrong with preferring that people have the ability to communicate with others (vs them not having that ability). The moral issue is externally-enforced selection (AKA eugenics), which seems to persistently rear its ugly head as soon as you start talking about disability. My friend (edit: redacted) chose not to have kids, because every ancestor he could trace on his paternal line had died of cancer around age 40, and he didn't think it was fair to inflict that on somebody else. I think that was a wise and moral choice - but it would not be wise or moral to take the choice away from him.