So who exactly decides what a 'desirable' trait is/isn't Disabled peoples lives matter just as much as anyones. Are you suggesting it's better if disabled people arent born/don't exist? We matter. We are not less.
Yeah, I agree. But the 'good' parts about this I'm thinking of mostly pop up at extremes - like, my mom has a genetic heart defect that killed two of her brothers, and she might just randomly die because of it. If I could erase that defect from existence I absolutely would.
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She could randomly die (as could anyone at any point) but she has lived. Would you rather she was not born at all? She clearly had children as she is your mum, and a quality of life, and achieved. We need to stop assuming there is a 'perfection' we need to achieve to have life.
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If we had this eugenics, your mother could have been forcibly sterilsed and never had you. In the 'ideal eugenics world' your mother wouldn't have ever even existed herself because she doesn't meet this 'perfect standard' I don't see how you could justify that?
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We will all die at some point. It's one absolute inevitability of human life, it ends for all of us. Does that mean people shouldn't be born? Of course not.
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But like... I'm not really treating 'potential life' in the same way. Like, you *not* giving birth right now is actively refusing to allow a person to live. But that seems like the wrong way to think about it.
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