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Originally Posted by Dan02
I'd have to agree with him Delgar, I'd go as far as to say with the advent of modern medicine we're actually starting to unevolve. In our society now genetically "inferior" individuals have almost the exact same chance to reproduce as the genetically "superior", where previously a bad genetic mutation probably would have lead to death before reproductive age, now these genetic defects can be passed down to subsequent generations.
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I would agree with that. Back in college I had an instuctor who was telling us about his daughter who had asthma. Basically he said that we were breeding a society of weaklings.
Where do we draw the line? Do we go the Nazi route and execute people with handicaps that are a burden on society? Of course not. Do we let nature take its course when somebody is suffering from a serious illness? Should we put the elderly out in the woods to die becuase they have become a burden? What about all the junkies and alcoholics who abuse their bodies and need to be rushed to hospitals for treatment? Should we just leave them in the streets to die? What about people who don't take care of themselves, who smoke and eat fatty foods with little to no exercise who suffer heart attacks or strokes? Should they be left to die because they were warned numerous times that that type of lifestyle was bad for thier health? How do we choose who should live and who should die? Or should everybody, regardless of the way they were born or the choices they make in life, be allowed the same care and respect?