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by dotnet00 769 days ago
At the same level, it's worth considering the effect on society. Western society (and increasingly global society) has grown a lot more accommodating for certain disabilities because it is understood that the condition was not the person's choice and cannot be fixed. But if the condition is capable of being cured/managed with no serious side effects, and the cures are easily accessible, what is the right amount of effort society should put into being accommodating?

These are all difficult questions, but it feels like we're going to eventually have to put aside our well founded fears over eugenics and confront these serious questions properly. For instance, many places offer the option to test fetuses/parents for markers of serious genetic disease and offer the option to terminate the pregnancy with the argument that the child would either not be viable or would have a horrible quality of life. On one hand this sounds reasonable, on the other hand it's pretty much a level of eugenics.