>>107832413The term cure implies a disease, yes.
But that is really just an insult to Mutants.
There are lots of conditions people have which are at least subjectively not harmful, even useful.
Such conditions can potentially be treated to induce a "normal" status, but people do not seek treatment because they see no negative effects.
If someone tells you: "I can cure your having two dicks!", you will likely tell him go do one, or two.
Because your abnormal condition is beneficial to you.
This, however, does not mean there aren't conditions that require corrective treatment.
And this is, I think, where this whole debate in X-Men never made sense.
They know a ton of Mutants suffer from terrible disfigurement or debilitating effects that make a normal life impossible.
>Oh, you are literally toxic to people around you and would kill anyone you touch?>Well tough luck. Better be a superhero and live in a hazmat suit forever.It seems a perversely American notion to uphold the literal winners of the genetic lottery and dismiss the grief of the losers as ideological failings rather than justified demands for relief from real suffering.
It seems laughably one-sided that the X-Men would embrace Mutants as special and valuable, but refuse to help those who received only negative effects.
I think it should be their greatest duty to grant those among them who just got whacked with the ugly stick, or even worse maladies, relief from that condition. If they so wish.
They also should actively prevent manifesting Mutants from causing embarrassing or even dangerous incidents via provision of safe test chambers and possibly medical induction for kids with the X-gene.
They could vastly improve their public standing if they would try to prevent harm to other young people by defusing potential bombs in their classrooms.
It must be paranoia-inducing to turn 14 and just wait every day in class for someone to explode, turn into a monster or randomly laser the walls.
