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Originally Posted by LostHopeOfDusk
We are letting ?Defective? humans live and reproduce, when just like 200 years ago they would die because no medical treatment was available. Heck, people died from appendicitis back then?
Letting those defectives live and reproduce, is good or bad for the DNA of the future generations?
And before they jump over me, I must point out that call people that won?t live without a medical treatment ?defective? was no meant to be an insult. I would have died as a kid if it wasn?t because of modem medicine, like antibiotics?
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One thing you've forgotten is that humans feel compelled to save other humans it's a social thing, and an evolutionary thing... Did it ever occur to you that this tendancy to help others out and then get helped out yourself at a later date is infact 10 times greater an advantage in terms of survival than the atomistic method you subtly imply where you allow so called "Defectives" to die?
It's a misconception that evolution is something that works on a line with ooze at the start and a libertarian styled infallible god at the other end... Nothing like that it's about how a creature becomes specialized to a habitat, And this happens on it's own without any conscious interference from humans :P Most commonly given example of such is sickle cell anemia... You might consider such a syndrome a horrendous "Defect" while infact when your environment is rife with malaria and by chance your "Defect" also makes you immune to this sickness your more suitable for survival than someone else even if you have health problems throughout your life due to this mutation.
I could give other examples of where they found people with auto-immune illnesses in Africa with high resistance to HIV because there White cells are screwed up the HIV virus can't bind with them properly.
So I'd say it's good because your expanding the potential and flexibility of the human gene pool you can't get rid of "Defectives" without turning us into a single homogenized race... And then it's only a matter of time until a virus exterminates all of humanity because were all so similar that there is nothing we can do.