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They really aren't that rare, and the reason we don't help all of them is not because of a utilitarian decision not to spend money on public healthcare. If you
by lazyasciiart 4y ago
They really aren't that rare, and the reason we don't help all of them is not because of a utilitarian decision not to spend money on public healthcare. If you can get your humanitarianism to move that money from corn subsidies and fighter jets to health spending, more power to you.
- autoexec 4y ago> They really aren't that rare, 3,100 cases a year in all of Europe, and 3,600 cases a year in the entire US. That's pretty damn rare really. And it's a genetic condition, which means we should be working to eradicate the problem entirely by screening parents and gene editing ideally making it both rare and increasingly rare from here out.
- lazyasciiart 4y agoIt didn't occur to me that you were talking about this specific condition, rather than the set of conditions that will be plausibly treated this way.