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Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong?
destinyland writes "One in 12 men suffers from colorblindness, though '[t]he good news here is that these folks are simply missing a patch of DNA ... which is just the kind of challenge this Millennium is made for. Enter science.' But NPR's Moira Gunn (from Biotech Nation) now asks a provocative question. Is it wrong to cure colorblindness? She reports on an experiment that used a virus to introduce corrective DNA into colorblind monkeys. ('It took 20 weeks, but eventually the monkeys started distinguishing between red and green.') Then she asks, could it be viewed differently? 'Are we trying to 'normalize' humans to a threshold of experience?'"
It's not all puppies and kittens. When I asked my wife for my gray towel, she looked at me quite puzzled. It was shortly thereafter that the mystery of why her husband was using a purple towel was solved.
After calming me down with some orange slices and some fetal spooning, E.T. revealed to me his singular purpose.
Ah, but where does it end?
"Would you like ultra-wide spectrum super-HD eyes with 60x optical zoom, Internet-connected HUD and complimentary laser cannons, just like everyone else has?"
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Hell yes.
No, I wouldn't. If everyone else has them, I want at least 120x optical zoom, ad-block on the HUD, and an automatic targeting program for the laser cannons.
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Ah, but where does it end?
"Would you like ultra-wide spectrum super-HD eyes with 60x optical zoom, Internet-connected HUD and complimentary laser cannons, just like everyone else has?"
Yes. Yes I do.
dennis
No, I wouldn't. If everyone else has them, I want at least 120x optical zoom, ad-block on the HUD, and an automatic targeting program for the laser cannons.
Add the ability to convert Americans fat chicks into Sweden porn stars and you got yourself a deal.
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I am an interested customer.
Tell me, do the laser cannons automatically come with the packaged shark/s? I have had problems assembling parts in these kind of situations before, so it would also be nice to know if the shark comes pre-attached to the laser, or if any soldering is required.
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We should be talking about curing my non-existent sense of smell too :-(
At least with color blindness people go "oh, how many fingers am I holding up?", but you tell someone you have no sense of smell, they go off and consume the most vile crap they can find just to let rip with a dirty sloppy arsed fart in the interests of testing the aforementioned anosmia. Now don't get me wrong, the entire planet smells exactly the same to me no matter my location, but farting on me...
Lol. Green ketchup. Silly color-blind AC, ketchup is blue.
Add the ability to convert Americans fat chicks into Sweden porn stars and you got yourself a deal.
People have been using beer to achieve that effect for a long time.
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Add the ability to convert Americans fat chicks into Sweden porn stars and you got yourself a deal.
People have been using beer to achieve that effect for a long time.
Yeah, but with beer the vomiting remains.
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if your code crashes the system powering your sight, how will you see the debugger output?
Are you quite sure they're broken?
If the patient thinks this is a moral grey area, he need the treatment stat!