Because, before you can cure something, you have to admit that the condition was a kind of flaw in the first place. Maybe it's easy for most of us to say that dwarfism clearly is a flaw but, if you were a dwarf, you may see it differently.
There was a similar outcry some years ago when there was talk of a cure for some kind of deafness. And, it's a little different, but kind of similar to Iceland's near elimination of Down Syndrome.
Calling it a "flaw" is probably going too far. It is a simple acknowledgement that if your physical traits or abilities diverge significantly from what is average, then your quality of life will suffer in some way.
Depending on your condition, maybe you won't suffer much of a loss, or maybe you will suffer significantly. The simple reality is that society is not ever going to fully accommodate someone that is 4'6" (137cm).
As a somewhat irrelevant example, I'm colorblind, and I don't see any redeeming value in that trait. It's a mild inconvenience, and it there were a treatment to make it go away without significant side effects, that would be nice. There is no reason to be "proud" of your physical attributes that you had no part in creating. If you are part of a historically marginalized group, then pride in your group can emerge as a method of coping with that oppression, but otherwise there is no point.
Being short is not a flaw but dwarfism is not the same as simply being shorter than average. It is objectively a flaw because it can directly lead to various other health problems.
Van Gogh was colorblind. Had his parents been able to cure him of it at a young age, we would likely not have any of his works now. I'm not trying to make any argument by saying this. I don't know what it means.
Perhaps he would've been a better artist without being color blind.
Either way, a person's life and health should be up to them, or, if they're a child, to their parents with their involvement. We shouldn't be condemning people to preventable medical defects just because it might produce benefits in some impossible to imagine way.
> Had his parents been able to cure him of [colorblindness] at a young age, we would likely not have any of his works now.
That's not at all a logically consistent argument. His art might have been better without the colorblindness. Or it might have just merely been different, but equally well-celebrated.
Regardless, you can't make decisions based on extremely unknowable hypothetical futures. If Van Gogh hadn't created any art at all, the world would still turn, and no one would know the difference. It's natural to imagine a world without Van Gogh's art with sadness when you already have his art; but had it never existed, no one would be around to care.
> There is no reason to be "proud" of your physical attributes that you had no part in creating.
Yeah, it seems to do more harm than good to turn a disability into an identity. I totally get that nobody wants to feel "broken" and it probably makes some people feel better to say there's nothing at all wrong with them, but it becomes an issue when it leads to attacks against people who want to help others overcome their limitations or people who want their own limitations overcome.
If I could give my children even small relatively insignificant advantages, or help them avoid some of the struggles I've had to overcome I'd want to.
I grew up in an environment of alcoholics. Many of my family were alcoholics.
My sister and I are most definitively not alcoholics. We purposefully avoided such a path. My cousins also.
We are seen by some of the older family as 'prissy/non-enjoyers of life/less willing to be 'alive/etc'. Though overall my parents I'm sure are happy we don't drink like they do/did.
Whenever you break from the group, it causes tension. One would hope most adults weren't so small minded that they would prefer their children suffer like them, so long as to not highlight their own ghosts. One generation should want the best for the next, and that means leaving behind things that have overwhelming negatives (such as genital mutilation) - I'm sure one day we will look back at purposefully keeping a child def or 'little' as a form of extreme cruelty.
There was a similar outcry some years ago when there was talk of a cure for some kind of deafness. And, it's a little different, but kind of similar to Iceland's near elimination of Down Syndrome.