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[Archer]

China huh... I was expecting India.

Either or will do.

 

[Karakand]

Why is everything labelled a condition, or an illness or a disease? Any genetic deviation is seemingly cast aside as flawed because it isn't inline with 'generic humanity'.

While I generally agree with your sentiment, the article doesn't really explain what the side effects of the kid's variance are wrt daylight hours. It's reasonable to think they aren't catastrophic (cat's aren't exactly blind in the day) but details about this are muddled from my cursorial googling so I'm not gonna hail it as another glorious step in the march to posthuman status just yet.

 

[Vormund]

He needs to begin training as a ninja.

 

[avaya]

I wonder if The Sun knows they have no credibility.

Unfortunately this is not the case. It's always been said that whoever has The Sun's backing becomes Prime Minister in this country. The pornographic comic book is scary relevant even today.

 

[Raistlin]

You're taking this too seriously.

probably

I'd imply from the article that the room appears completely dark to people with standard vision, yet this person can still see. I mean the next line in the article says that he's extra-sensitive to light...which logically means there must be some light. I think you're employing a little too much semantic scrutiny for a Sun story.

I still maintain it is simply poor writing. How can you imply the above, when an absolute term (complete) was used? It isn't even a semantics things ... any usage of 'complete darkness' makes your implication nonsensical.

I'm just saying, drop the 'complete', and then I suppose the article isn't completely retarded.

If what we were reading was a peer reviewed article I might agree; but for a newspaper article, you can use terms like "complete" that make sense to your average reader. The people who it really matters to will be reading about the case in a more substantive publication than The Sun (assuming it's true anyway).

My issue is that an average reader actually would misinterpret the meaning of this article because of the usage of ‘complete’.

 

[-COOLIO-]

sounds like the worlds first straight up fucking super power to me. now he just needs to become a trained government assassin with a code name.... or super hero.

if eyes have less pigment for protection though what does that imply?

 

[Synless]

Why is everything labelled a condition, or an illness or a disease? Any genetic deviation is seemingly cast aside as flawed because it isn't inline with 'generic humanity'.

It's because they are scared of a being that is superior to them. So they accuse them of being freaks when in reality I would kill for night vision eyes.

 

[SnakeswithLasers]

probably

I still maintain it is simply poor writing. How can you imply the above, when an absolute term (complete) was used? It isn't even a semantics things ... any usage of 'complete darkness' makes your implication nonsensical.

I'm just saying, drop the 'complete', and then I suppose the article isn't completely retarded.

My issue is that an average reader actually would misinterpret the meaning of this article because of the usage of ‘complete’.

Haha, fair enough man. I don't want to spend all day defending some shit reporter for The Sun. We can both agree it's poor writing--just not to the same extent. I'm willing to be ok with that. =)

 

[Raistlin]

if eyes have less pigment for protection though what does that imply?

that they aren't as protected as normal eyes



Seriously though, this anomoly must be much more complex than what was cited. That last paragraph is full of lulz.

Leukodermia (of the eye?) doesn't explain having eyesight like this, nor does it give any sort of explanation of why his eyes would supposedly reflect light like a cat.

If a lag of pigment was all that was needed for this, albinos would be able to see like this (and have reflective eyes).