Post #3788619

2026-07-13 16:07 UTC

These are always technology problems more than moral problems. The issue is our technology is too shit currently to fix the genetic disease. Same with abortion generally. If we had artificial wombs then we could even have late term abortions and birth the child to be adopted and yes there is a shortage of babies to be adopted.

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@mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-13 17:23

and yes there is a shortage of babies to be adopted. So adopt literally anyone besides a baby instead. The issue is that adoption is almost singularly focused on babies, while the foster system is falling apart at the seams due to being overfilled and underfunded. In the foster system, any child older than 4 is considered a “late” adoption. The sad reality is that if a baby doesn’t already have adoptive parents waiting for them when they’re born, they likely won’t ever get adopted. Because adoptive parents are entirely focused on adopting babies. And that really says more about the adoptive parents, because it means they’re adopting for their own sake, instead of the child’s. It’s selfish to sit on an adoption list for years to get a baby, instead of simply adopting a toddler who needs a home. The sheer level of arrogance and narcissism on display is honestly astounding. Adoptive parents see a system bursting at the seams with kids who need a home, and then go “nah, make a new one just for us. We want that bun straight out of the oven.” It’s honestly disgusting.

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@zqps@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-13 20:15

There’s very much an ethical problem here. Sure, it’s fairly clear-cut with some genetic issues, but there’s no clear delineation to where you’re veering into eugenics. Take children who are deaf due to a genetic defect. I’m sure most parents imagine being deaf a terrible lot in life that they’d like to spare their kids from. Then listen to actual members of the deaf community. They’re proud of their identity, they have their own language, and they’re terrified of the prospect of being essentially eliminated in just a few generations. What if we discover a few years from now that there are genetic markers for being queer? What if we can genetically engineer people to be more muscular, have a more attractive bone structure, lighter skin? Such technology doesn’t just fix genetic diseases. In a hierarchical global society, it eliminates human diversity.

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