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It's not absurd, once you remember that autistic people are human beings with feelings. Edit: Sort of shocked that I am having to spell this out to all the "bu
by chownie 2y ago
It's not absurd, once you remember that autistic people are human beings with feelings.
Edit: Sort of shocked that I am having to spell this out to all the "but embryos..." posters, but the backlash is coming from autistic human people with feelings. I was not insinuating some anti abortion sentiment.
- Vecr 2y agoYes, but practically speaking if you constrain to the set of people who would go through with assortive mating in today's society, AND are high IQ (and don't think it's a fluke, i.e. they think it's heritable), AND have no relatives that are autistic, AND aren't related to certain Jewish populations, how many candidates are you going to have left? And I'm not talking about diagnosed autism either, e.g. do you have/did you have a weird uncle? Edit: uh, the Jewish part's for Tay-Sachs and some other traits, that should have been obvious from the "certain Jewish populations" part.
- weregiraffe 2y agoSure, but embryos are not.
- 123yawaworht456 2y agoso are people with any other mental or physical abnormalities. embryos and fetuses are not people, however - they're just bundles of cells ;) policing human reproduction at embryo stage is absurd in the world where abortion is legal and acceptable for any reason or no reason at all.
- squigz 2y agoWell I'm autistic myself, so...
- RHSeeger 2y agoI am a diabetic. It doesn't make me a worse person, but it does make my life more difficult. If I had the ability to screen for diabetes for my child, I would do so. Because the fewer things that make my child's life harder, the better. Same thing.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoBeing a woman is objectively harder in America than being a man is. Would you screen for that?
- Vecr 2y agoThat's disputable, but it would be a really bad idea for obvious reasons either way. Think the incel problem is bad now?
- RHSeeger 2y agoYou're making an argument just to make an argument. Being a woman has both positives and negatives; there's tradeoffs. The same is not true of being a diabetic. My guess would be that most people believe there are very few benefits to being autistic to offset the negatives.