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Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by DrJokepu on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:26PM (#13851792)
It's been a long while since I saw that movie, but I'm fairly certain that it was way more complicated than your synopsis.
Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by politician on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:38PM (#13851857)
Nope, he's correct, and his synopsis would make a great episode of "How it Should Have Ended". The protagonist wasn't an idiot, but the rest of that is accurate.
Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by mikeash on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:36PM (#13851846)
There's a ton of other stuff in the movie that attempts to make the case against testing, but IMO it's all overshadowed by the main plot wherein a failure of testing likely results in a major problem for an important mission.
Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by rosser on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:48PM (#13851910)
You'll have to remind of of the part in the movie where dude's presence on the mission is a problem for the mission.

Or, wait, is that just your conjecture? Sorry. My bad.

Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by mikeash on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:53PM (#13851947)
He was the navigator. That seems kind of important. If it wasn't, why would they bother to bring him along?
Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by rosser on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:01PM (#13852004)
You either missed or evaded my point, simply to re-state your own. (Also: nice shadow-edit.)
Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by mikeash on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:10PM (#13852075)
I don't see where I'm evading or missing your point. Perhaps you could explain? And I didn't make any shadow edits. You sound rather paranoid.
Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by maxerickson on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:37PM (#13852240)
Did he die during the mission? Did he really have a heart condition?
Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by mikeash on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:42PM (#13852279)
He really had a heart condition which put him at high risk of death during the mission. That is stated in the movie. We don't know if he died during the mission, but I didn't say that, merely that it was likely.
Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by maxerickson on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:45PM (#13852300)
I'm pretty sure that in the movie they say that the genetic tests point to a high probability of a heart condition.

It's left ambiguous as to whether he actually has a deadly heart condition.

There's the scene with the treadmill, but that can just be to show that he is normal.

Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by Oletros on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:52PM (#13851941)
Perhaps that happened in Gattaca 2 because the movie ends at the launch and there is no problems
Re:Employees who decline genetic testing could face penaltie... by mikeash on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:58PM (#13851980)
It's stated that his heart condition is likely to kill him before the mission is over.

This is like, "Perhaps that happened in Thelma & Louise 2, because the movie ends with them alive and in midair."