An ordinary world
Vincent Van Gogh, John Nash, tom cruise, Winston Churchill, Alexander graham bell, Thomas Edison, Leonardo Da Vinci...
All these people have a thing in common besides being famous, they all suffer from birth defects. Some of them are dyslexic
and some of them suffer from schizophrenia, still others have other defects, both physical and mental.
I was talking with one of my colleagues and I heard that scientists are working on perfecting the process of pinpointing unborn babies with birth defects. This they say can help in aborting them well before a critical time period when the fetus develops. So a pregnant mom can go get a scan and if she knows her baby is going to have a birth defect she can abort it...No hassles because the baby has no name, therefore no attachment...And everyone lives happily ever after right? Wrong!
It is usually a child with learning disorders like Einstein and Newton that grow up to be a genius and break limits set by ordinary people.
If these future geniuses are killed before birth, would the world be devoid of brilliant people? Would we be getting a Stephen Hawking or a Da Vinci in the future? What would such a world look like?
All these people have a thing in common besides being famous, they all suffer from birth defects. Some of them are dyslexic
and some of them suffer from schizophrenia, still others have other defects, both physical and mental.
I was talking with one of my colleagues and I heard that scientists are working on perfecting the process of pinpointing unborn babies with birth defects. This they say can help in aborting them well before a critical time period when the fetus develops. So a pregnant mom can go get a scan and if she knows her baby is going to have a birth defect she can abort it...No hassles because the baby has no name, therefore no attachment...And everyone lives happily ever after right? Wrong!
It is usually a child with learning disorders like Einstein and Newton that grow up to be a genius and break limits set by ordinary people.
If these future geniuses are killed before birth, would the world be devoid of brilliant people? Would we be getting a Stephen Hawking or a Da Vinci in the future? What would such a world look like?
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1 Comments:
They say Bill Gates has Asperger's Syndrome which is a mild version of autism. Makes me wonder if this genetic testing before birth of a baby would help in producing future geniuses or suppressing them. The irony is science can kill itself and we wouldn't know of it... I think the world requires a perfect balance and this balance is provided by nature and not by scientists!
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