• Taohumor@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    As long as you don’t use the word eugenics explicitly apparently you can sell anyone on anything.

    • Patches@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      They literally say “Word beginning with ‘eu’ and ends with ‘genics’” inside the article pimping them out.

      With a sprinkling of ‘Orchid doesn’t like us to use that word’ as if ‘Nazis do not like to be called Nazis’ is a valid complaint.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      No they acknowledge that the technology could be used that way. But there’s a lot of actual medical problems we can catch this way. Imagine you carry the Huntington’s gene. How much would you pay to make sure you don’t pass that down to your kids?