orangered wrote:
lau wrote:
orangered wrote:
Aranittara wrote:
Essentially I don't want us to be eliminated as a group and I want to maintain a choice for myself and my children not to take the cure.
Well, I do not identify myself with any group. Sorry for disappointing those who feel otherwise.
In that case you would be happy with a cure for maleness? This is also genetic. It is a well know fact that males are more <insert adjective of choice here> than females. They should obviously be cured. You would not identify yourself with this group?
Certainly I do have traits common to other people. Yet I have never got an idea I belong to a worldwide group of males.
Some males apparently feel members of such a group and try to be (or at least appear) as masculine as possible. Not my case.
Yes, in your case, you do belong to the group of males, unless you have not entered your gender correctly.
orangered wrote:
I have never said someone should be cured against his/her wish, I am concerned about individuals.
You probably did not meant it literally with a cure for maleness, but in case you did, I am not against the possibility to change gender and I am not against anyone who chooses to do so.
I did not suggest that I was speaking of changing gender... just curing maleness. One cure is quite simple: death. This has happened a few times already - with cures for autism - the autist died.
orangered wrote:
As for disappering groups, let's try this example:
You imply AS is purely genetic. Let's say it is. Then, given difficulties with mating AS people experience in average,
it is probable that evolution does not favor AS people. And I still sleep well. Hope I made myself clear.
I believe you confuse breeding with evolution. It is obvious autism is, if anything, favoured by evolution. Certainly, if you believe in the fable of a dire upsurge in autism.
If few autists breed, but there are more (or even the same proportion) of autists in the world, either the autistic genes are dominant or non-autists are badly disadvantaged.
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