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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eugenics is a venerable American tradition, but I am against it.

What an asinine question.[/quote]

I can't believe it took 5 pages to see a response like this, but it is a 100% the only correct response.

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This is not eugenics in the traditional sense. They are not saying people should be forced not to have kids, just a general question of whether someone thinks it’s a good idea or not. The reality is that life is unfair, genetic heritability is real and family history matters. This is just one factor among many people should ideally consider when they decide whether to have kids and how many kids to have. [/quote]

It one thousand percent is eugenics. Should we also test the IQ of people before we determine whether they are smart enough to have children? Should we only have tall people reproduce? See how it's a slippery slope?

You don't want people who are imperfect in a million different ways reproducing. You want perfect robots. It's sick.[/quote]

I think you are talking from a moral high ground here without actual experience on this issue. I never said that people should not be allowed to reproduce due to family diseases. I just said that IMO it is prudent to consider family history when you make decisions about having children. My family has a history of a genetic disease that is able to be screened for with genetic testing during IVF. We now have unaffected kids that are not at risk of dying early due to modern technology. If you have actually talked to people who have these serious genetic diseases or are married to someone with one, they would (for the most part) tell you that they are strongly in favor of screening to prevent their kids from being a victim of family history. It’s easy to say that this is “eugenics” or “immoral” when it’s not your kids that might die from a disease. But I’m not taking a 50/50 chance that my kids have a terrible disease when there is way to almost eliminate their risk that this terrible condition is passed on to the next generation of my family. I am very supportive of people having the choice to protect their kids with genetic screening and I think it should be subsidized for people that can’t afford it. I do not support forcing anyone to use it or banning anyone from having kids. [/quote]

And you are conflating a personal decision to not have children with a prohibition due to mental illness. I'm all for people making decisions on their own whether to reproduce or not. I am not and never will be in favor of anyone else making that decision for me. How would you feel if I said that people who are unable to have children should not be able to undergo IVF?[/quote]

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