The Value of Diversity

Kay Jamison discusses the dangers inherent in genetic disorders.

I love the fact that we are as diverse a species as we are. I love the fact that we have such a diversity of temperament and such a diversity of intellectual styles and ways of seeing the world and ways of going through the world. And I don't want to start narrowing that range, you know, I want to give people a lot of options in terms of treatment and a lot of options about what they do with their lives. I don't want to give people a sense that they have to start narrowing and narrowing and narrowing and producing a kind of little "vanilla children." It's a kind of a ghastly thought.