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Commander Una Chin-Riley faces court-martial along with possible imprisonment and dishonorable dismissal from Starfleet, and her defense is in the hands of a lawyer who’s also a childhood friend with whom she had a terrible falling out.


Written by Dana Horgan

Directed by Valerie Weiss

  • bulbasaur@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The idea that you can modify someone’s genes to “enhance” them is bog standard “positive” eugenics. It’s literally the definition of eugenics and it’s upsetting to me that you are treating this like a debate.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127045/

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41434-019-0088-1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_eugenics

    New eugenics […] advocates enhancing human characteristics and capacities through the use of reproductive technology and human genetic engineering.

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      2 years ago

      You can see that you’re just doing what I described and making an argument solely based on “eugenics” being a broad term that includes evil things right? What is the concern you have about letting parents modify their unborn child’s genes, besides the fact that it could ungenerously be described as eugenics?

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        2 years ago

        It’s literally eugenics. There’s nothing ungenerous about calling it what it is.

        If you don’t see the issue with genetically modifying children without their consent to “enhance” them or make them racially “superior” then I can’t help you.