Modern times sees the beginning of the exploration of the genetic makeup
of the human race.
The research and the conclusions that are able to be drawn from physical
health and genetics are reasonably strong but not so for mental health.
That won't matter though, not when the public can get genetic assays
done when the science is still in its early days and make fertility
decisions.
Hereditary diseases such as Hungtingdon's can now be screened for and so
can schizophrenia, albeit very poorly.
But schizophrenia is different. It is a mental illness. There may be a
biological component however there is a considerable weight of evidence
to support that idea that this is significantly overvalued by the
medical model.
No parent who would want their child to have schizophrenia just as many
parents would screen for the presence of homosexuality if this was possible.
In the 1970's genetics arguments were used to say that homosexuality was
normal and was part of being a human being for some people.
The capability to screen embryos is unregulated but it is likely that if
the situation continues the world will see an attempt to do what Hitler
wanted to do: get rid of the schizophrenic forever.
It wouldn't work of course, but people would still attempt to screen for
this supposed illness. The value of people with this diagnosis would be
lost to the world, just as the value of homosexuals could have been
wiped out had their not been a movement in the latter 20th-century to
change the immoral state of the consensus opinion of normal sexuality.
The means today are more humane but the ends the same as Hitler. No one
seems to want schizophrenics in this world.
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