After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?
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sure, in the beginning.
disease obviously down to such things as baldness. again these questions will be answered by societies using this technology.
some of the pictures ThaG posted are examples. I'm not here to argue where to draw the line, that would be up to whatever societies decide.
things like this will happen. if parents for example want a boy who will be 6'4 with blond hair and blue eyes they will have that option, for a price I'm sure. there will be pluses and minuses, good and bad, like all technology. but I'm not here to argue the morality of it all I'm saying its inevitable, it will come. in the long run, hundreds of years from now we will have evolved our species to be very different from what we are today. society as well will be nothing like it is now.
disease obviously down to such things as baldness. again these questions will be answered by societies using this technology.
some of the pictures ThaG posted are examples. I'm not here to argue where to draw the line, that would be up to whatever societies decide.
things like this will happen. if parents for example want a boy who will be 6'4 with blond hair and blue eyes they will have that option, for a price I'm sure. there will be pluses and minuses, good and bad, like all technology. but I'm not here to argue the morality of it all I'm saying its inevitable, it will come. in the long run, hundreds of years from now we will have evolved our species to be very different from what we are today. society as well will be nothing like it is now.
I think we are forgetting about the person actually giving birth here...the emotional attachment a mother has to their children is a bond NONE of use can fathom. Imagine giving birth to your child, and then having it destroyed. I cant even imagine the horror i would suffer going through that. Its one thing when its a fetus, it isn't seen by the mother, and she didn't just go through all that labor getting it out.
There are a lot of variables that go into this...not just the final outcome. Human emotion is the strongest driving force behind our actions, whether we want to admit it or not. Its easy for us to sit here, as men, to say "meh, just kill it". Its another thing, as a future father, to be there when your child is born and have it taken away from you immediately, not matter how many imperfections it may have.
There are a lot of variables that go into this...not just the final outcome. Human emotion is the strongest driving force behind our actions, whether we want to admit it or not. Its easy for us to sit here, as men, to say "meh, just kill it". Its another thing, as a future father, to be there when your child is born and have it taken away from you immediately, not matter how many imperfections it may have.
That's why we should not be letting things get that far and pregancies should be terminated on time. It's not as if people learn that they're pregannt moments before they give birth.
However, prenatal screening is not perfect yet, so women who have such kids and yet insist on raising them need to grow up a little bit
However, prenatal screening is not perfect yet, so women who have such kids and yet insist on raising them need to grow up a little bit
This thread reminds me of the movie Galactica
Where we will be become people who don't allow "imperfect" people to have certain jobs, live a certain lifestyle, etc......
But we think allowing an imperfect child live is cruel
Where we will be become people who don't allow "imperfect" people to have certain jobs, live a certain lifestyle, etc......
But we think allowing an imperfect child live is cruel
If that's the case, I have to point out that that movie is a blatant misrepresentation of the issues involved here. By getting on that rocket, the guy actually jeopardized the success of the mission - the reasons he was not allowed to fly are perfectly legitimate, considerable societal resource goes into such missions, you want the healthiest people possible to fly them. There isn't anything wrong with that, just basic risk assessment logic.
Not being able to accept that such a thing is better for yourself, for society as a whole and even for the child itself is definitely a sign in immaturity. There are very powerful biological instincts that weigh the decisions making process in the direction of raising it. But being able to overcome our animal instincts with rational thinking is precisely what maturity is.
"Courage and heart" will do nothing to help you when you get a heart attack in space. You get heart attack due to chemical properties of bioorganic molecules and the laws of physics. No amount of willpower can overcome that.
Do not get me wrong - the kind of everyday social discrimination they had in the movie was unjustified. But not allowing people with elevated health risks to fly in space is the right thing to do.
Do not get me wrong - the kind of everyday social discrimination they had in the movie was unjustified. But not allowing people with elevated health risks to fly in space is the right thing to do.
