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I would argue this has more or less been the case for most of history, in a different form. It used to be that most people died young. If your genes weren't st
by matthest 1y ago
I would argue this has more or less been the case for most of history, in a different form.
It used to be that most people died young. If your genes weren't strong enough, disease would've knocked you out before you became a teenager.
It's only relatively recently that we've made it possible for people of all genetic types to survive into adulthood.
- smeej 1y agoIt has, but in an accidental way, in a, "Shit happens," sort of way, not in a, "My parents looked at me, decided I was faulty, and never gave me a chance," sort of way. This is much more akin to the old practice of leaving babies to die by exposure if they seemed sickly/weak, which still turns my stomach. I think it would even be a different thing to me if we were screening sperm and ova for their genes and only combining the best sets than screening the embryos.