Should it bother me that my answer for this prompt question wavered in just minutes? Like, I went from a no, to a it depends on the conditions at play, to a maybe. The more I thought about each one, the more I got really shaky in my own resolve. And it's scary.
I mean, I don't feel like it's the right to do at all. If we took out the 'everyone and/or every child is beautiful the way that they are,' I don't see reasons why. But then, in the society that we live, a lot of persons grow and wish that they had a different genetic makeup. I stumbled on the page of this actor/media personality. He's a midget married to a supposedly average height woman and they both have a child, who by the look of things would take after her father in stature. From reading through the comment section of a post he made, I learned that his child was over a year old but was unable to walk, which should not be much of a problem, in my opinion, cause some kids take longer before they can walk unaided. His comment section was mostly filled with trolls. People who bashed and insulted him and his wife, saying he had no business birthing a child and, as they said, creating problems for her that will likely affect her esteem and all. They said dirty words about the child.The people there said the meanest things. You'd think that the child was any related to them or that they loved the child and were more invested and interested in her wellbeing than her birth parents.
As I read through this topic, they came to mind and I thought that if they had had the opportunity to make adjustments( on the child's gene, wouldn't they take it up? Surely they must have thought about the chances of how the child would look. Of course, of course they would. Cause as much as they love their child however she is, they(the father in particular) would want her to grow as normally as every other child and be free from the stigma that came with her size.
I thought also, of the woman I had met a few years back whose story I shared in my early days here, whose daughter had suffered leukemia and passed on. I thought that certainly she wouldn't pass on the chance to alter her child's genes and make sure it was healthy and free from the disease. That way, her girl would have lived a better, full life and may still be alive and well.
I guess in these instances my stance wavered. If it were to ensure a better quality of life where the child was free from any form of illness especially terminal and life-threatening ones, maybe I'd deem it okay that parents should go on to modify, otherwise, their makeup should stay same. Cause knowing how our society works, it will only be a while before things spiral out of control and the system is abused and corrupted.
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