Reminds me of the great anecdote: After the casting of Patrick Stewart, someone said to Gene Roddenberry, 'By the 24th century, won’t they have cured baldness?’
Roddenberry replied, ‘By the 24th century, they won’t care’.
one thing that tech bros forget to take into account is that disability is simply part of being human. if we truly wanted to eliminate disability from the human condition we’d have to eradicate humanity –Terminator style–.
why do you ask? because disability is inevitable once you age. aging is part of becoming disabled. accidents are acts of fate that can render you disabled at any moment. can you eliminate bad luck from the universe? I know Elon supporters would love to claim otherwise, alas, you cannot.
this is similar to the weirdos that only adopt able-bodied babies and dump them once an accident happens or they discover they were disabled all along but passed the eugenics screening process. the conclusion is, if you can’t love your child regardless of health status then you don’t really love them.
Idiot: well why can’t they just alter genes to do away with disabilities?
Me remembering the group of genetically modified individuals who came out with more neurological problems: they have several episodes on why you can’t do that
Curing a disability at birth is not eugenics. Wtf?
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.
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
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.
