Watson, the guy who discovered DNA, is also an old geezer whose generation believes in out-dated racist and homophobic assumptions. He recently said that those of African decent are less intelligent than westerners. You can imagine your lizard-looking grandpa watching TV in his underwear blurting out the same thing.
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3067222.ece
The article says that Watson once told a British newspaper “Woman should have the right to abort her unborn child if tests could determine it would be homosexual.” This got me thinking, is that really unethical – to abort a child solely on the basis that the child has 100% chance of being homosexual? At first this may appear to be ethically ambiguous, but I believe I can prove why it is morally unethical.
We need to make one major assumption before I go on, we need to assume that discriminating against homosexuals is morally wrong. All morals fall somewhere on a ‘moral spectrum’ and I believe the consensus would agree this one is definitely on the bad side.
Lets assume Watson is NOT against homosexuals.
Lets say that Watson believes that woman have the right to choose why they want to have an abortion. In this case he says it's ok to abort when the child is homosexual. This may make sense because a homosexual child is going to be a hassle in a homophobic society.
In this case isn't the mother who aborts her gay child trying to dodge gay discrimination? Instead of her trying to work against homosexual discrimination because it's wrong, she side steps the issue by not having a gay child. This sort of "ignoring the issue" is why homosexual discrimination is perpetuating in modern societies.
It would be equivalent to saying that black slaves should have just ignored the problem instead of dealing with an injustice. And that black people (back then) should not reproduce because they will just be slaves. I hope we can all see something wrong with that.
When Watson says its ok to abort a gay child, he is implying that as a society we need to work AROUND gay discrimination not against!
From an economical stands point: More gay people = less population
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