Vampire Genetics

Hello All,

With the advances in genetic technology everyday,
we should ask ourselves: what if we are vampires
because our genes say we are? If it is a gene that
makes us who we are, then who is to say that this will
not be feared? My only fear, is that vampirism would
then be a disease to be cured or treated, or that it
will be considered a birth defect to be removed before
conception. If the medical community would take it as
a sign of disease, it would then try to prevent it.
It would then be up to us to try to make it not a
disease, but a condition that is completely normal,
such as blue eyes, or brown hair. Not to be feared or
considered a defect or a disease . If we
were to find a link to each other by way of genes,
would we be better off? The medical community, since
it has been around has been trying to rid itself of
anything out of the ordinary, trying to remove things
which perhaps should be better off left alone. Should
we allow research to be done,and would we be given a
fair chance to live basic lives without having to worry
about people using this as an excuse to discriminate?

To try to prevent vampirism would be like trying
to remove a whole portion of people. Genocide if you will.
Who would then carry on for us? Would we then exist only
in stories? And if we did exist only in stories, how do
we know it would not just be the same old thing? How do
we know the "stories" of us would not just be the myths
that have been going around for centuries? In my opinion,
it would be up to us to protect those who will be as us
in the future, and those who are as us now. Not by preventing
medical studies, but by preventing the thoughts that people
may have of us. Thoughts that make us seem like the movie
monsters in people's nightmares. We would need to make sure
that people know we are not what the movies say we
are.

I believe one of the reasons that we must usually take so
much caution in who we tell exactly what we are to, is the
basic fear of people wanting to institutionalize us. I am
sure that alot of people here have experienced some form of
descrimination having to do with their vampirism, either
because of closed minds online or offline. The medical
community is just that, a community, in which there are people
who all follow a basic plan of action for any type of diagnosis
from physical to mental. Should there come a time when real
studies are done, with real scientists trying to come up with
a good reason why we are the way we are, and not TRYING to get
rid of it, I believe we will be much better off.

Written By Barbie

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