YIKES sounds like you have some problems to work through
Are you for real? Just because I don’t like my disability you say I have “problems”? Would you say that to someone with a congenital heart defect? Or cerebral palsy? JFC! I’m not allowed to not enjoy my disability? Go fuck yourself. Judegemental asshole. Keep your opinions about my disability to yourself.
The Eugenics Wars happened with a bunch of genetically modified super soldiers that were created through selective breeding. The term ‘Eugenics’ often just gets used as short hand within the Trek universe for all types of Genetic Modification in general as genetic modification is illegal in the Federation.
There is a minor arc with Bashir in the later half of DS9 where it comes out that he’s been genetically altered as a child to become smarter. It gets a lot into the ethics of changing someone who couldn’t consent to being altered and also deals with others who didn’t have as successful of a modification.
Curing a disability at birth is not eugenics. Wtf?
if it’s not life-threatening it can easily turn into eugenics. if my autism was deleted at birth, I wouldn’t have consented to that procedure
I would have. In a heartbeat.
YIKES sounds like you have some problems to work through. keep that to yourself though instead of projecting it onto the disabled community at large
Are you for real? Just because I don’t like my disability you say I have “problems”? Would you say that to someone with a congenital heart defect? Or cerebral palsy? JFC! I’m not allowed to not enjoy my disability? Go fuck yourself. Judegemental asshole. Keep your opinions about my disability to yourself.
The Eugenics Wars happened with a bunch of genetically modified super soldiers that were created through selective breeding. The term ‘Eugenics’ often just gets used as short hand within the Trek universe for all types of Genetic Modification in general as genetic modification is illegal in the Federation.
Aye, I was just having this discussion the other day. Star Trek is humanist, not transhumanist.
There is a minor arc with Bashir in the later half of DS9 where it comes out that he’s been genetically altered as a child to become smarter. It gets a lot into the ethics of changing someone who couldn’t consent to being altered and also deals with others who didn’t have as successful of a modification.
Wouldn’t it technically be if they are genetic disorders? To fix it you’d have to be doing some degree of intentional directing of human genes.
I suppose. I honestly wasn’t even thinking of gene therapy. Not all cures for disabilities would necessarily require gene therapy.