Yes, it is a separate issue, but the overall tone of the article sounded like all advancement to find a better cure is bad and conformist if not even fascist.

I'm the opposite of your friend. I'm no longer creatively active, because I take meds for my bipolar disorder and I think the loss of creativity is worth not going through the manic stages and depression. But this just proves that everyone of us should have a choice when it comes to the treatment.

But we're basically talking about the possibilities of real future of mankind. When it comes to fiction I find quite fascinating to read about societies where eugenics are the norm and there's a lot of them in the sci-fi genre. I always felt like sci-fi (as a speculative fiction) should explore the possibilities (be they negative or positive) of development of human race (scientific, technological as well as ideological). For me reading sci-fi work rarely ended when I finished the book or short story.