There are plenty of birth defects that have no chance of ever being cured, no matter how Star Trek things get. Neural tube defects that prevent the brain from developing properly, for example. If a baby is born without most of its brain, it's going to live, at most, a couple years of constant misery that it's not conscious enough to even comprehend. There is no curing that.
😂😂😂😂😂, that’s literally just a diagnostic issue, we already have a solution for that it just requires the ability to diagnose at a reasonable cost. Also there’s already been a kid born with only a brain stem that made it to 9 years old.
Okay, to what end? A person with only a brain stem is basically a plant. A plant that has multiple seizures a day. No thoughts, no personality, no possibility of ever doing anything but lay there, ever, no matter what. Is allowing that sort of existence to persist for nine years a good thing? I'd argue it is not.
I don't know what you mean by "a diagnostic issue". Anencephaly or iniencephaly are not curable or treatable no matter how early you diagnose it. I'm not talking about relatively minor issues like spina bifida or encephalocele.
And from every child who survives with either shows the frailty of your argument. I will once again resort to how many children survived what at the time was considered unsurpassable odds and lived. You can keep yelling insurmountable odds, yet funnily enough that changes on a yearly basis because of the progress of understanding the disease and working toward a solution.
And every child that cries in misery and suffering as it dies in slow agony because they didn't have the random luck to survive this horrible defect is worth it because a miracle may happen and they might kinda live for a few years as a vegetable.
Kid suffering, A-Okay as long as we can own the libs.
Child cancer is not the same as lacking a cerebral cortex. For one child cancer is not remotely a death sentence, there is every possibility of living a full, happy life for most types.
Lacking a cerebral cortex at birth doesn't present any chance of recovery, this isn't even long odds, its an absolute certainty, barring some distant future sci-fi medical technology bullshit anyway, and I'm talking the kind of shit that would make us effectively immortal. And the life your mindless body will live will be neither long nor full and it will be physically incapable of complex emotions like happiness.
Child cancer is bum luck
Catastrophic failure of the CNS to develop is 100% fucked.
There are plenty of birth defects that have no chance of ever being cured, no matter how Star Trek things get. Neural tube defects that prevent the brain from developing properly, for example. If a baby is born without most of its brain, it's going to live, at most, a couple years of constant misery that it's not conscious enough to even comprehend. There is no curing that.
😂😂😂😂😂, that’s literally just a diagnostic issue, we already have a solution for that it just requires the ability to diagnose at a reasonable cost. Also there’s already been a kid born with only a brain stem that made it to 9 years old.
Okay, to what end? A person with only a brain stem is basically a plant. A plant that has multiple seizures a day. No thoughts, no personality, no possibility of ever doing anything but lay there, ever, no matter what. Is allowing that sort of existence to persist for nine years a good thing? I'd argue it is not.
I don't know what you mean by "a diagnostic issue". Anencephaly or iniencephaly are not curable or treatable no matter how early you diagnose it. I'm not talking about relatively minor issues like spina bifida or encephalocele.
And from every child who survives with either shows the frailty of your argument. I will once again resort to how many children survived what at the time was considered unsurpassable odds and lived. You can keep yelling insurmountable odds, yet funnily enough that changes on a yearly basis because of the progress of understanding the disease and working toward a solution.
And every child that cries in misery and suffering as it dies in slow agony because they didn't have the random luck to survive this horrible defect is worth it because a miracle may happen and they might kinda live for a few years as a vegetable.
Kid suffering, A-Okay as long as we can own the libs.
Inmates spend longer than that on death row. Barely surviving 9 years is still a death sentence.
No shit Sherlock, so is child cancer, the point is would you rather have the chance to live and survive despite all odds or not?
If I ever become a brainless vegetable, I hope that my family is strong enough to bring aboutu clean and painless end.
I say this seriously.
Child cancer is not the same as lacking a cerebral cortex. For one child cancer is not remotely a death sentence, there is every possibility of living a full, happy life for most types.
Lacking a cerebral cortex at birth doesn't present any chance of recovery, this isn't even long odds, its an absolute certainty, barring some distant future sci-fi medical technology bullshit anyway, and I'm talking the kind of shit that would make us effectively immortal. And the life your mindless body will live will be neither long nor full and it will be physically incapable of complex emotions like happiness.
Child cancer is bum luck
Catastrophic failure of the CNS to develop is 100% fucked.