My club, Misanthropes United, would beg to differ with the conclusions in this article. You can hear all about our perspectives at our next meeting, which will be taking place never.

This one’s kind of hilarious in its stupidity:

This one is a little old, but highly relevant:

That’s an interesting point. I wonder, if you could get one of these right-wing clowns to speak honestly, how they would reconcile those issues.

Exactly, you know they would just love the opportunity to charge you more or deny you coverage entirely for being a CF carrier. That’s basically got a pornographic level of appeal to a health insurance executive.

In addition to the horrors you so accurately describe, there’s also the fact that outside of the highest-end genetic labs, there’s a wide range of errors that can easily take place in genetic testing. A significant percentage of studies involving genetic testing ultimately are proven to be bunk because the researchers…

If he did watch Gattaca, all he would see is Ethan Hawke breaking the law and he’d have a rage-stroke about the unfairness of him taking a spot from his “genetic superiors.”

I think Charlie Brooker may actually be clairvoyant, rather than creative. Too much of his stuff is too accurate.

I’ve seen some articles floating around indicating that while it’s far from certain, there’s a very real chance that this will move forward. There’s a lot of money behind it, trying to make it happen. On those grounds alone I wouldn’t bet against it.

There’s a eugenics bent to all of this that’s really frightening. The idea that people who need to use a lot of healthcare are dragging the whole world down and should be allowed to die off so as to “strengthen the herd.”

Their ultimate goal is to only sell insurance to people who don’t need insurance. That would be the perfect business model, as far as they’re concerned.

I’ve posted this elsewhere, but it bears repeating - this opens the door for people like me, who almost certainly carry genetic markers for multiple cancers, to be denied health insurance, because I’m “too much of a risk” to insure. It could turn “bad genes” into a pre-existing condition.

Good point. Taking the time to parse their BS just plays into their hands, and that’s what I did. Thank you for pointing it out.

Getting patted down for jewelry is, sadly, normal nowadays. Also probably useless security theater.

I know, it’s like anarchy with all the misuse of the word anarchy!

Nazi mindset with the science of Gattaca.

In the movie, yes.

Genetic markers for increased risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. “Bad genes” will be the ultimate pre-existing condition.

It’ll be like “Gattaca” but instead of not being allowed to be astronauts, the “genetically inferior” just won’t be allowed to live.

Bad genes are the ultimate pre-existing condition. If my past employers had known my family’s cancer history, there’s no way they would’ve ever given me insurance. I’d wager that I’ve probably got several genetic markers for elevated cancer risk that could’ve been detected. As it happens, I’m still cancer free (knock…