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Originally Posted by Burning Down
I don't believe in the practice of eugenics. I think it's unfair to prevent people from having children based on them having certain diseases or genetic mutations that might be passed onto their offspring. In fact, it goes against Darwinism - evolution of the human race would probably come to a standstill upon elimination of "bad genes", and humans would be at risk for extinction (presumably).
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There will still be plenty of diversity as long as we allow natural genetic recombination of a "normal" genome. Making sure you don't have an extra X chromosome is not unreasonable and surely doesn't add to the fitness of our species. There are a lot of theories on this...but essentially, we have halted our own evolution just through our medical breakthroughs. These "faulty" genes would have been filtered out through natural selection if we lived naturally. So now it's up to us if we want to eradicate things like Alzheimer's or Lou Gehrig's.
I'll have to watch that video you posted. I'm fascinated by the whole thing myself.