It's real enough to shove pills down the throats of kids for.

It's still a disease

Same with sickle cell anemia. Very useful trait to have...if you get malaria.

Diabetes is life enhancing if you have long fasts

huh

That's why Somoans have it so much

They selected for it so they could do long stretches without food as they went from island to island

Disease =/= bad

So people who get diabetes they should take long fasts to live longer with the disease or live longer than someone without the disease?

It depends on the circumstances

yeah, as advanced as medical science is, i still think we know jack shit

@Malt_Hitman , actually nowadays they should take insulin

This is the 21st century 😃

"this is a disease"
"why"
"because it is detrimental to your health when you shove 500lbs of food down your throat every day"
"How is that... what?"

That's just a variation on "current year" arguments.

Well we now are seeing male hemophiliacs have progeny for the first time in Earth history. Why? Because modern medicine!

Now *there* is an ethical dilemma for you.

I predict within another 200 years human beings will be entirely birthed with C-sections. Why? Modern Medicine! Women who died in childbirth now have kids and pass genes on that are not conducive to vaginal births.

Cat, do you see modern medicine allowing people with heritable aliments reproduce enough that we may go back to the idea of eugenics in a serious manner?

I'm damn glad of that or I wouldn't have kids and my wife might be dead.

@Malt_Hitman , that's a political and not a medical question

I'm a doctor not a politician, Jim!

:p

lets just skip to brains in engineered bodies that live forever and just outlaw having kids on established planets.

want kids, go to the outer colonies.

oh, and we will rip their brains out of their bodies and place them in these human 2.0 bodies. because that is the ethical thing to do

You're a doctor but you work (I assume) in a hospital and I'd guess you deal with insurance companies. Does that idea ever get brought up seriously? I'd assume it would at least arrise when dealing with people who work in insurance companies jokingly.

Mmmm, brains. (hey, it's almost Halloween :p )

"Brians, BRIANS!"
"Caboose its brains"
"Oh....moaning, mooooaning"

@Malt_Hitman , what get brought up? Why should live and who should die?

money

money deicides that

The idea that people with heritable illnesses cost more money to keep healthy.

Oh, they do

But no, we don't judge

Most hospitals are non-profit and exist to serve everyone

I won't work for a for-profit. My profession is my vocation.

That said, insurance companies tinker with it. But ultimately that's a political debate. We're having it right now. It's called pre-existing conditions.

@DrYuriMom so, how accurate is this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDOQpfaUc8

https://youtu.be/s57T27M1ZXk

@Grenade123 , as is often the case, this is a very selective presentation. Still watching.