Philosopher: Effective tests have recently been developed to predict fatal diseases having a largely genetic basis  Now, for the first time, a person can be warned well in advance of the possibility of such life-threatening conditions  However, medicine is not yet able to prevent most such conditions  Simply being informed that one will get a disease that is both fatal and incurable can itself be quite harmful to some people
This raises the question of whether such early warning tests should be made available at all
The advance of technology is of questionable value.