yup, we failed to communicate
Submitted by d on August 11 1999 at 23:25:57
In reply to I don't know Submitted by Jimf3 on August 11 1999 at 22:03:01
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Sorry if I wasn't clear. The high blood pressure and athsma were placeholder examples. I could have said "medical condition A" and "medical condition B" and the meaning would be unchanged. We do not know what determines sexuality - genes, prenatal environment, young-childhood environment, puberty environment, or a mix of the above (and the answer may be different for different people). The questions were designed to ask 1) if a parent could fiddle with the mechanisms which determine his child's sexuality, does he have a right to, and if so, should he (or even does he have a responsibility to)? And, if in order to treat some other medical condition, one of the side effects will be to fiddle with his child's (or future child's) sexuality, then what? Should he let the condition go untreated? Should he choose a treatment which favors one sexuality, or another? I think we, as a society, are decades away from being forced to address these questions, but they are still interesting to think about. -David ("d") |