Of course paraplegics should be allowed to have paralyzed kids, too. Seems the right thing to do. I can think of a number of birth defects we give newborns to have so they match their parents. Blindness is particularly appealing, too. /s
“England is currently deciding whether or not to legalize the use of embryo selection to produce deaf babies to accommodate deaf couples who want their children to share their soundless world.”
Sick, sick people....
Part of this is about the “Culture of Death” but the main issue here should be pandering to the militant deafies. I’ve learned a lot about the “Deaf Culturists” since the recent contretemps at Galludet.
The deafies are feeling threatened as cochlear implants get better and better.
What incredible barbarity. Shall babies also be blinded and have limbs removed to mirror their parents?
It may be a new world, but there's nothing brave about it.
In China, it was once fashionable to bind the feet of young girls so they would have club-shaped deformed feet. I guess that if they’d possessed modern genetic expertise they could have made Chinese women naturally have these feet.
You know, in Muslim African nations where they remove the clitoris of teenage girls maybe they could use this technology to have women born without that troublesome organ!
What if these designer deaf babies turn out to be like chihuahuas. A big fad, and then it’s over and no one wants them. Because chihuahuas are actually annoying little things that do not really make much sense as animals from a utilitarian standpoint.
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Madness. liberalism is a mental ilness.
Actually, not true. Murder of slaves, even by the owner, was illegal in all American states. I believe there were quite a number of convictions and even a hanging or two over the years.
In practice, of course, it was remarkably difficult to get a conviction, and it is likely the guys who got hanged were unpopular in the neighborhood for other reasons.
I’ve always found it intriguing that most of us think of sight as more critical than hearing, yet AFAIK blind people have never developed a tribal mentality like this with a separate culture.
PING!!!!!