[ SECRET POST #1691 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1691 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 13 pages, 314 secrets from Secret Submission Post #242.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[stepstostars.livejournal.com]

iirc, there was a 95% chance he would have a heart disorder. I'd think that would be a legitimate concern for his safety.

I mean, yes, he was willing to give his life for his dream, but how many parents would allow their children throw away their lives needlessly? How many people would allow someone a chance at something if they only had a 5% chance they could complete it? How many people are near suicidal enough to reach for something that might kill them?

I understand how it might seem kind of horrible to judge someone based on a chance, but I feel like knowing that you have an extremely high chance of X, (and yes, you will possibly be judged for it), is better than flailing around in the dark.

tl;dr: Yes, the movie does bring up some ethical concerns, but the discrimination in the movie is for pretty legitimate reasons + the upsides of genetic engineering outweigh the downsides (in my opinion, at least.)

(sorry, deleted because I wanted to correct something >>)

[joshua-glass.livejournal.com]

I totally understand what you mean, and yeah there aren't a lot of parents that would let their kid do something with such a small chance of success (if not succeeding = dying), but it just bothers me that a great deal of people who are behind this sort of genetic... selection I guess is the word, wouldn't be doing it for someone's personal welfare, but to breed out what they deem "unworthy" traits, and I think that's what worries me the most.

Or maybe I'm just too cynical. XD

[stepstostars.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah I can understand where the concern for genetic engineering/selection/etc. could come from, it's just that I've seen so many poorly argued "AHH, SCIENCE = BABADHORRIBLE" arguments, aggh.

Any power that can do good can also do harm, but it just seems people won't even allow research into these subjects because of that tiny possibility of the worst-case scenario shown in movies/books/etc. o__x;

[joshua-glass.livejournal.com]

Maybe we can bribe them with chocolate to have common sense when it comes to genetic selection? XD

But yeah, I am all for curing things. Coming from someone who has maybe a handful of working organs, fixing genetic issues would be awesome. XD

[stepstostars.livejournal.com]

CHOCOLATE.

Everyone loves chocolate, I dig that plan.

Haha, oh, man, yeah, I can see how that would be extremely helpful. Unfortunately, we don't even know what half our genes do~ and they're extremely complicated and do not want to be solved. >>;

I'm sorry, but I don't have a happy icon yet. But Patrick Stewart in pink works, riight?

[joshua-glass.livejournal.com]

Chocolaaate~. Even I love it, and I'm allergic. XD

It's honestly amazing how even seemingly simple organisms have such complex genes. It'd probably be long past our time before we finish mapping them. :/

[stepstostars.livejournal.com]

D: Allergic to chocolate? Aw, well, nutella ftw, right? <3

Haha, well, I do believe that just sequencing DNA is relatively easy (with PCR and better technology now), figuring out what they do. Then, well, we're screwed :D; especially because sometimes a combination of genes code for a single trait (stupid trolling genes), and most of our DNA is...trash/useless, pretty much. (:

yaay, everyone loves Patrick Stewart pink!