But does evolution look any better?

I don't see it as cultural genocide because it's not really forced - nor is there any reason to artificially maintain a culture that is falling apart on its own. If less people are blind, there may be less blind culture, but it's not being attacked, really.


It's certainly unfortunate for the people who can't be helped by advances such as this and then have less of a culture to work within, but that's no reason to stand in the way of new technologies. Eventually - hopefully - something like this will be available to everyone who is blind or deaf no matter the original cause. Even then there will be some that refuse the treatment, but that's their choice.


Cultures change, and sometimes they go away. It happens.

Keanu Reeves approves of this idea.

...Wait, you're serious? Why would you prevent people from having the choice to hear or see just to keep your "culture" intact?

I guess we should be upset with cars because they destroyed the horse-and-buggy culture.

I know you're just a dumb AC, but if you have a degree in CS and you're employed somewhere that isn't using at least some of the things i listed then i can tell you something about you're programming shop, or the code you produce:

one of them is utter garbage.

It's an awesome flight, but you only get one shot and in the end you still mess things up?

Flip that argument - who's up for preventing blacks from purchasing skin lightening or radical plastic surgery?

See, kids, that's called a false dichotomy.

Oh wow, so I guess by your logic, I should not blame the person who broke into my car and stole just because the lock wasn't designed against simple lock-picking (it isn't hard to pick a lock.)

Blame the faults of the implementation of a technology, and absolve the criminal of his own personal and moral responsibility. Awesome display of stupidity.

This isn't about a 13 year sentence for "Hacking."

This is a 13 year sentence for credit fraud, credit card theft, and oh yeah, he also stored the credit card numbers on a computer where other people could get to them.

There's no cleverness here that needs awarding. Back doors are easy to install when the FBI has already allowed you to contract there.

I completely agree, but because this is a small sample size, and people are definitely interested in this data, someone might be willing to compensate them financially/free medical checkups in exchange for the potential problems of their medical history being known.