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Re:Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 09, 2024 @02:10PM (#40311082)
> when people become too old to walk without assistance, you wouldn't say that they have a walking disease.

Why not? We have some peculiar cultural memes related to accepting the inevitable end of life, which we perhaps should revisit. I see no reason to not consider aging itself as a slow-burn disease, one we'll hopefully cure at some point too.

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Re:Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial by xhevahir on Thursday May 09, 2024 @04:32PM (#40312676)
"Peculiar cultural memes" is an odd way of describing a piece of advice that one encounters so frequently in cultures the world over.
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Re:Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 09, 2024 @05:59PM (#40313372)
Well, peculiar now, given the understanding of biology we gained over the last 70-ish years. Individually, it still makes sense, but at social level, it stops us from working on fixing the problem.
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