Comment on Does the net positive of Eugenics out weigh the negative? How so?

• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you watched Gattaca and thought, “This is a good blueprint for the future”, you missed the point the movie was making.

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s the thing about sci-fi, it’s a warning about potential horrors but that doesn’t mean horrifying things can’t have a positive.

    I wholly understand that the point of gataca is oppression that comes from giving humans another metric to oppress. It’s spelt out plainly. Unfortunately, like the main character, I’m also the product of people who didn’t think about what they’d be passing on. Now in my thirties, I’m in the early stages of arthritis, my eyes are failing, and if family tradition holds I’ll have less than a decade before a sudden and undetectable heart condition kills me. If that doesn’t get me I have early dementia waiting in line.

    I’m three quarters through the life I was given and I knew the name of my killer before I was ten. To me, Gataca is a world where some forethought on my parents would mean never having to do weekly injections so that my flesh does not consume itself. A long and ordinary life without pills every morning or regulating my diet for inflammation.

    SciFi isn’t about the dangers of science, it’s about the dangers of science misused. The moral of gataca is that people are more then the sum of their parts and to value them on such is cruel and unjust. It’s that parents have a responsibility to their children, regardless of their own feelings on it. But it’s moral isn’t that correcting bad genetics is wrong. No one deserves to be born broken.

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  • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ok lets say you have a child. And they tell you he or she won’t last past 25 years old, but they can make an “adjustment” so he or she can live a full and happy life.?

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    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s not eugenics, it’s gene therapy. Eugenics is when the policy is compelled by the state, for its supposed benefit to society instead of the affected individuals.

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      • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        woah woah woah. I thought Eugenics was about curing disease’s and not about policy or anything doing with the state. And to benefit society. I have way way way misspoke… Thanks for catching me on that…no sarcasm.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But that is not what you are talking about.

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      • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I know now I mis spoke well typed.

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• ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because the mutation that causes anemia is the one that prevents malaria. You can’t have one without the other.

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• JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You didn’t finish that movie, did you?

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think a big problem is it becomes a slippery slope. We can all agree that heart disease and cancer are bad. What about asthma? Ok, probably bad, let’s get rid of that. Near-signtedness? Hmm. Being short? Not having a strong jawline? Male pattern baldness? The “wrong” skin color?

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Watch better films.

  Do not believe all that they tell you.

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