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I'm not slandering beautiful people at all, I'm just slandering people who aspire to little more than being one of them. And that's my story and I'm sticking to
by varelse 5y ago
I'm not slandering beautiful people at all, I'm just slandering people who aspire to little more than being one of them. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it. The only thing worse is people catering to that urge. But I guess it's a market opportunity and that's how capitalism works, no?
As for genetic diversity, sure we need genetic diversity, but we also no longer need the gene that fights malaria in the heterozygous case but gives you sickle cell anemia in the homozygous case because we have treatment for malaria now. Lather rinse repeat for a whole bunch of genetic ailments that will eventually get filtered out of the genome by evolution because they no longer serve their purpose so what's your problem with us accelerating the schedule? Or do you see value in the BRCA gene for your unconceived potential daughter for some reason?
There's definitely a moral hazard beyond that and I admitted as much but there's plenty of runway before we get there. But also if we really need to reintroduce these genes down the road we have the technology to do so.
- nradov 5y agoWho is "we"? Malaria still kills 400K people per year and the treatments aren't completely effective. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/reduction/drug_resistance.html https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/reduction/drug...
- varelse 5y agoAnd why is that happening? "We" certainly have the technology to fight it so I wonder why that hasn't happened already. Hmmmmmm... https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=18104 https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=18104