30 Nov 2015, 2:00 am
30 Nov 2015, 2:52 am
Kraichgauer wrote:
pawelk1986 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
zer0netgain wrote:
I can't say I like "eugenics," but I've long passed the point of believing that reproduction is a human right.
There is so much evidence that letting humans reproduce just because they have functioning organs isn't sound policy. Lots of people who are unfit to be parents are producing kids who are neglected, lots of parents who will pass on genetic disorders choose to have children knowing of the risk of passing on those disorders, and frankly, we can't keep breeding like rats because the global population is only sustainable because technology makes it possible to feed everyone (and that could change overnight).
My biggest issue would be how to determine who should make the decision of a couple could have a kid or what the standards should be for determining if someone is fit to be a parent.
There is so much evidence that letting humans reproduce just because they have functioning organs isn't sound policy. Lots of people who are unfit to be parents are producing kids who are neglected, lots of parents who will pass on genetic disorders choose to have children knowing of the risk of passing on those disorders, and frankly, we can't keep breeding like rats because the global population is only sustainable because technology makes it possible to feed everyone (and that could change overnight).
My biggest issue would be how to determine who should make the decision of a couple could have a kid or what the standards should be for determining if someone is fit to be a parent.
So you believe we Aspies shouldn't be allowed to pass along our "genetic disorder?" Well, too bad, so sad for you, because I already did.
That was good
But the truth is that some syndromes can be transmitted genetically.
For example, my mother thinks my father, who died in 2002 due to cardiomyopathy, also suffered from Asperger's, but in the 70s and 80s in communist Poland, no one had heard of such a thing as Autism or Asperger Syndrome.
My father was a very busy, it was just a workaholic, than it was a very meticulous and precise, he had quite specific, sometimes macabre sense of humor, for example, my dad suffered from a hernia, it was a small defect, there were indications for surgery.
But my dad always postponed it until later, Dad was afraid of surgeons.
But when I finally decided it was too late, because sooner had already begun to heart problems, and it was a contraindication to performing unnecessary surgeries for not life threatening illness.
Returning to the subject, even when dad was dying would not leave his sense of humor, once he asked during his doctor does when finally kick the bucket does they make him surgery for that damn hernia
The only downside of my father was that he could not control his temper, easily upset, a little like Dr. House MD
My mom thinks I inherited Asperger's syndrome, after my dad.
My mother read some books about Asperger's Syndrome and is confident that he had AS too
Your description of your dad reminds me a lot of my dad, who was very intellectual, very precise with his hobby of gardening, and - oh Lordy - did he have a short fuse! I'm pretty sure my dad, had he been analyzed, would have been diagnosed as an Aspie.
As for Poland not knowing what Asperger's was back in the eighties and before - same here in America. I was only diagnosed later in life. Back as a kid, they pigeonholed me as hyperactive because they apparently had no idea how to classify me.
I was classified as ADHD too
they latter changed that for AS
30 Nov 2015, 2:59 am
30 Nov 2015, 3:04 pm
