Do you think modern medical science will have a detrimental effect on the human gene pool.?
Firstly, I’d like to say that the majority of things medical science saves us from are not genetic defects, or inherited weaknesses. More lives are saved by clean water than anything else, then vaccinations, then antibiotics. The genetic tendencies to obesity, asthma and a bunch of other diseases are all important in a non technological societies, as they protect us from death by starvation, parasites, malaria, etc. Secondly, we are reaching the point at which we”ll be able to filter out serious inherited genetic conditions by screening and embryo selection. I’d be much more worried about the dysgenic effect our social welfare has on encouraging the stupid and criminal to breed like rabbits, while discouraging the responsible from having kids by not improving state childcare for working parents, or by taxing ‘one working parent’ families to a stupid degree. The UK system is a good example. Families entirely on state benefits have more spare cash than a family with a man working to sup
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