/sci/ - Science & Math

The science to eliminate congenital diseases i.e. Huntingtin’s chorea, Duchenne dystrophy, etc exists now. Doesn’t even have to be through selective abortion or sterilization or anything violent, but with gene editing, so the person is born how they would be just except without a debilitating disease. The suffering worldwide that would become 0 from diseases that we can treat is astounding. But force people to suffer from the moment they’re born because society throws a tantrum when
genetic screens or gene modification is even mentioned even if it can CURE illnesses

Also IQ is one of the most heritable traits (80%) even more than even height. Genes determine so much about a person. We could make people smarter and healthier

We throw so much money at limiting disease risk (example the reason we tell pregnant mothers not to drink or smoke so no birth defects) and burn hundreds of thousands of dollars per INDIVIDUAL to keep people born sick on drugs their whole lives. Heck, we even stop siblings from blinking uglies in most civilized places because more often than not the kids are freaks of nature. But the second it comes to actually DOING SOMETHING about genetic diseases there’s nothing we can do?

Censorship is awful. Can’t bring any of this up in science otherwise you get called a Nazi. If we say fuck taboo and only look at the science, there is a legitimate case for so-called “eugenics”, no? Why are people so against giving these treatments if they can save lives and make humanity better?