Apparently its crazy to want a good set of genes for your offspring

[Koldhearted]

Sooo saw a question last night talking about baldness/receading hair in a possible SO family history and the general consensus was that he's crazy for that being s factoring desicion.

How in the world is that crazy is what I want to know.

Since when is it crazy to want the best for your future kids? If it were a health condition or mental illness that could pass it'd be acceptable, so why not a bad set of genes?

As a guy, ya hear a lot about how receding hair line/ young baldness shatters a guys confidence, so why is it bad for someone to not want a gene like that being passed on

[thatguy67]

I don't think he's crazy for wanting his kids to have as many advantages as possible. The only thing I found weird about that question was that he (if I recall correctly) recently met the girl and was already thinking of marrying her and having children, especially when he was 18-24.

I don't think anyone has a 100% perfect set of genes that will guarantee 0% risk of any sort of flaw...getting too caught up in the possibilities of some inherited trait (of which the mother's genetic responsibility isn't scientifically conclusive yet) may make him forget about whatever genetic dispositions his own family has. If he plants that idea in his SO's head she might notice things about his family and form a similar suspicion that might not even be accurate

[jmr2191]

It's not crazy to want a good gene pool, but good luck, buddy. Everyone is a carrier for about 15-20 genetic and epigenetic diseases and unless you have had a whole exome or whole genome sequence, you will have no idea what most of them are. Plus, there's no guarrantee that even if pathogenic mutations are sequenced that they will be found because it was deemed non-pathogenic by mistake, it was not included in the targeted area for sequencing, it's in a gene not currently confirmed to cause anything pathogenic or it is a type of mutation not possible to find with a particular type of sequencing (i.e. whole exome sequencing and splice site mutations or a linkage analysis) and a copy number variant..

[xzinax2]

well it's crazy to some people,to some it isn't. personally,i don't give a crap if people are bald,i don't see it as a significant problem so I don't think it's something that should lead to not being with someone you could really love and have a good relationship with. of course,if you care about hair and you think it's really better to avoid bald people than teach your kids that their hair isn't a big deal-you won't think it's crazy.

[snowangle]

It's normal to want good genes for your children, but as I recall, the question was using the girl's father to judge that, which I'm not sure has ever been proven. My dad is bald and my brother and I both have thick hair, and I have no reason to believe we carry the bald gene.

[pickledxtofu]

People on here often have a major foot up their asses and like to think that they're deeper than everyone else and somehow are not superficial/shallow (but everyone else is)

It's not crazy, it's reality and normal.

[martyfellow]

Who says baldness is bad? Maybe baldness genes are tied to other genes that are favorable in ways you don't understand!

[Koldhearted]

Its an acquired taste.

[Anonymous]

It's not. What's crazy is do believe in a stupid thing like your children being born and staying bald.