[LMB] LQ #9: Duties to the genome?

[Marty L. Adkins]

Jen speculates:

>It does raise the question of what happens to a child that suffers a
>near-drowning or head injury at age 8 or 10, resulting in traumatic brain
>injury.  Would they have treated this child differently, because it clearly
>wasn't genetic?  Or would they have treated this child with even worse
>revulsion, because they didn't want to face the fact that something like
>that could happen to anyone, no matter how "clean"?

Remember, after Kou's extensive injuries in _Shards_, in _Barrayar_ 
he was shunned as a mutie, in spite of injuries in battle.  People 
were surprised he hadn't committed suicide.

Jerrie