Nothing specific, we just need to acknowledge that if people reproduce with serious diseases the prevalence increases. Medicine is fantastic at saving lives, this is no anti-medicine rhetoric.
Medicine is so good, and only getting better, that our genetic fitness as a species is going to be progressively eroded through the continued spread of negative mutations.
Generations will progressively suffer more and be more dependent on medicine to live a normal life compared to now.
There are two main ways to prevent genetic disease, either don’t reproduce or control genetics. Each with their own stack of moral dilemmas. Inaction is also a choice with its own issues and moral concerns, like in the trolley problem, except over such a long period of time the cause and effect is not abundantly obvious
Just because we don’t get eaten by leopards much anymore doesn’t mean selection isn’t happening.
Apply some context… It’s not going to be removing diseases from the gene pool at anywhere near the rate of before modern medicine
What exactly are you advocating for here?
Nothing specific, we just need to acknowledge that if people reproduce with serious diseases the prevalence increases. Medicine is fantastic at saving lives, this is no anti-medicine rhetoric.
Medicine is so good, and only getting better, that our genetic fitness as a species is going to be progressively eroded through the continued spread of negative mutations.
Generations will progressively suffer more and be more dependent on medicine to live a normal life compared to now.
There are two main ways to prevent genetic disease, either don’t reproduce or control genetics. Each with their own stack of moral dilemmas. Inaction is also a choice with its own issues and moral concerns, like in the trolley problem, except over such a long period of time the cause and effect is not abundantly obvious