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I’m not saying this to be mean or intentionally offensive. I genuinely am having a hard time understanding the logic: If you know that you have a genetic mutation that will be fatal 100% of the time, and which generally only allows you to survive for a short period of time beyond your early reproductive years, why would you have kids? It seems selfish to me, that these people understand their condition but still choose to doom their progeny to the same fate.

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c0mpost@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You know what is fatal 100% of the time? Living at all.

Reproduction is not about logic anyway, it’s just a very common and fundamental feature of life. People who are disabled or fatally ill also have ordinary dreams, desires and human rights. Framing the issue as “these people are dooming their progeny” makes it seem like their own lives are worthless because they will die young, as if the value of human life rested on longevity. It’s quite frivolous to assume we can understand the desire to have kids of people with such diagnoses.

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- BA834024112@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Well said
  
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thejml@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not discounting that logic, but it is also possible that the genetics of your partner get passed on for that gene instead of yours.

The part of the logic I’d struggle with is that if you only survive a few years after their birth, you’re creating an offspring that will loose their parent at a very young age and potentially putting your partner in a precarious position as a single parent. Not to mention the fact that every day you’ll look at your kid and think “I’ll never see them grow up, or graduate or get married or …” seems like a constant reminder of your upcoming doom.

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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
We’re normalized to it, but having kids at all is selfish. You’re dooming a consciousness to death.

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