Ah, well. Many, many views on the forum. Thanks for the original thread, Rose.

Venus, I'd like to be around and see how you react when the time comes that gene therapy is
a cure and would like to watch how you see people responding to its effectiveness. One of
the best things you've posted has been the statement that it is not beneficial to be a member
of a society which is profoundly ill...or something similar.

When there is no such thing as "normal", how individuals would respond to life around them
and to their own inner principles might change society radically (though some have finally
awakened to the fact that we're all more alike than we are different).

Anything would be better than the idea (as Dr. Jamison suggests in "Touched With Fire" could feasibly happen) that bipolar patients, depressive ones, or mentally deficient ones might not be permitted to reproduce. t We can't say that it would never happen, because it did happen in Germany in World War II.

Genetic coding plays a far more important role in all of this than is generally thought, I think.

I wouldn't mind being genetically re-engineered to be a creative person or to have a gift in painting,
sculpture, etc. To be it rather than to desire it would make life fun for me.