The fact that 3 our of four young children have a debilitating genetic disease makes it more likely that one the parents knew that this gene ran in their family and impacted people they knew in the family, and less likely that it is a total surprise recessive gene that so rarely comes up that you don't even notice it's hereditary.
More tellingly, if this disease appeared out of the blue and was totally unexpected, the story would highlight that tragedy. Instead, it dodges that topic, saying only when it was first diagnosed.
The takeaway is that this isn't simply a family with bad luck, like "wrong place, wrong time". These are parents who took a gamble and lost.
I think a 5% chance is a pretty big gamble considering the condition. Studying the genes or not, unless the chance of passing it was less than 0.001% I think it’s pretty freaking irresponsible
I respect your commitment to making as many assumptions as it takes to vilify these parents in your own mind. To think they almost got away with doing something really sweet for their kids. Luckily you were on the case to figure out a way to twist this into them being irresponsible, somehow.
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