Cleaning the Gene Pool

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When do you draw the line? Are psychological illnesses worthy of cleansing? (autism for example, or schizophrenia)

I think parents should be able to abort fetuses for whatever reason they want (including genetically inherited diseases) but that's a far more individual thing, and before the person is born. The parents are the ones who will have to live with the kid, they should be allowed some control over who the kid is.

As for diseases like AIDS that are not genetic, just transmitted person to person - wouldn't it be better to find a cure than to condemn everyone who has it?


and you can't make a magical society where everyone is healthy, diseases are constantly evolving and if you eliminate a large quantity of the gene pool, what remains is that much more likely to be susceptible to the same disease when it finally appears.

If AIDS would have a cure, there would be some advancement by now. Maybe I just haven't read up on it in a while, but I see no advancement.

But the point of this "experiment" is to eliminate those diseases from the pool.

Again, as I stated, if everything to work out, I know stuff like this won't happen magically.
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