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Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by causality0 on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:57PM (#30761672)
What does and does not constitute a disease is relative. Mental infirmity is a disease. Aging is a disease. Death is a disease. We participate in the comforting delusion that because these things have never been challenged before that somehow makes them less horrifying. Screw that.
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Re:Jailed baby gene scientist ‘should be made responsible’ f... by dragonwriter on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:59PM (#30761682)
> Death is a disease.

Death may be a consequence of disease (among other causes), but it is not a disease.

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