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Re:Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial by knicholes on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:13PM (#40309703)
The deaf community considers the lack of hearing a disability when it means they get federal financial assistance, though, don't they? It can't go both ways.
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Re:Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial by soperj on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:15PM (#40309724)
a disability isn't a disease.
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Re:Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial by s_dev on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:16PM (#40309749)
If a disability means anything it means acknowledging you need 'help' in some form.
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Re:Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial by eyelidlessness on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:46PM (#40310105)
If a condition can be applied to the human experience writ large—needing help in some form—you might consider that “disease”, but you’d be deeply into the territory of existential philosophy and/or hyperbole.
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