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Cmd+F eug Are we using "genetic discrimination" now? I thought we already had a perfectly serviceable word.

• gruez 2y ago
  >Bill doesn’t have ALS. He’s a healthy 60-year-old man [...] The word you're thinking of isn't even applicable in this case. At 60 year old, the chances of him passing on genes is highly unlikely. Denying him insurance might suck for different reasons, but it's hardly going to affect the gene pool.
  • throwanem 2y ago
    > At 60 year old, the chances of him passing on genes is highly unlikely. Better than even odds is "unlikely" by you? > JUNE 13, 2019 – About 61.6% of men (74.7 million men) age 15 and over are fathers, and of those, 72.2 million men have a biological child, according to a new Men’s Fertility and Fatherhood: 2014 report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. [1] [1] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/mens-fertility.html https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/mens-fer...
    • gruez 2y ago
      You missed the point. He might have had kids back when he was 25 or whatever, but denying him insurance when he's 60 is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.
      • throwanem 2y ago
        Fair enough; on review my argument was indeed not on point. The perils of commenting while distracted, I suppose.
    • technothrasher 2y ago
      The poster wasn't talking about men over 60 that are fathers, it was men over 60 who will likely have another child. Your statistics drop from ~62% of men who father children to ~0.1% of men over 45 who father a child (and undoubtedly that goes to almost 0% after 60).
• im3w1l 2y ago
  Eugenics is about improving the gene pool. Genetic discrimination is about making more money.