The extended phenotype and personal will to survive is part of evolution, and altogether different from attempting to cheat evolution and make decisions for others.

I absolutely would not lose weight without calorie counting.

The nets and harpoons and sails tested by this satellite are for snatching entire defunct satellites

Meh, tracking calories is far easier than people make it out to be and it’s really the only way to truly know how much you’re eating. This isn’t saying you have to track your calories but if you are one of the many, “I can’t lose weight and I just don’t know why!” then you need to track your calories, at least…

I mean it’s really hard to get fat and mess up your endocrine system if your convenience snacks are fresh fruit, nuts and such.

As for the risk being negligible among healthy children, not all children are healthy — including many children in many countries.

I’m 63. When I was three there was a measles encephalitis epidemic in my county. I was hospitalized for a couple weeks. Yes, I was fully immunized by my nurse mother.

I think this stuff transcends geographic location.

You’re saying that as if insulting religions were a bad thing.

“An example: Do children who have autism have any higher risk of dying from measles if they catch it than children who do not have autism, no matter how small that risk is?”

But as it stands, your argument is basically “it is god’s will that your child died an easily preventable death.”

I agree with almost everything in the article, but I strongly reject the notion that the concept of ‘found families’ comes from the LGBTQIA+ community (even though you added ‘in part’) or that it has anything to do with being a person of a nb gender.

That won’t be an issue. Relativistic mass increase is something that observers see in the fast things going by, not something that affects them personally.

I just watched “ They shall not grow old” made me think about how the teens are getting weaker with every generation.

A society in which children are treated as resources and callously allowed to die because some creep like you has decided it’s for the greater good doesn’t deserve to survive. It would be a dystopian nightmare.

Autism isn’t a disorder, much less a genetic or psychological one.

You initially argued for “having children without diseases”; the implication being that you leave progeny who succumb to pathogens die off and redirect resources to the nurturing of “disease-resistant” ones. That is selecting for “disease”-free human genetic heritage—i.e., eugenics.

In that case, I would rather that humanity perished than live in a society in which children are allowed to die when they could be saved.

Seriously, degeneration? These ideas were outmoded in the late nineteenth century.

No. Children with autism (neurological atypical) have the same immune systems as their more typical brethren.