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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you there. I like people just as flawed as they are, and eugenics is a very slippery slope. How do we decide what traits should be "gotten rid of"? How long until we start phasing out the benign traits that make us unique? Could we resist the temptation to start manufacturing humans to be as efficient and passionless as possible? Reminds me of "Brave New World". I'd rather have humans without any genetic manipulation, than have people with too much.
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I'm all about just ending human suffering as much as possible. Unfortunately we can't forever destroy things like cancer or sexually transmitted diseases or other terminal illnesses sometimes brought on by lifestyle choices or tricky genetic problems, but I'm completely certain that no child with mental retardation
wants to be retarded. Most of the time they're completely aware that something's not quite right but they can't explain why people are such as
sholes toward them.
And before everyone gets on my case about that, before I resolved that I wanted to pursue an education in psychiatric medicine, I wanted to be a mentor/teacher for special needs children. Before I realized that I just don't have the time or patience for children at all.
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Originally Posted by dreadnaught
Haha. I'd actually be flattered by that, even coming from a small child. See ya'll, we can appreciate kids, we just don't want to be burdened with one.
Also, I've kind of accepted the fact that I'm likely going to die alone with 10+ cats as my only kinship. Look for me on future episodes of animal hoarders: cat lady edition.
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My cat is amazing.
He eats by himself, poops in a box, minds his own business most of the time, understands a plethora of words and he's not even a year old yet. He's absolutely self-reliant in so many ways (not that it's a hassle to refill his food and water and cuddle him because he's so goddamn adorable and sweet) and his existence as my child is incredibly inexpensive.
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Originally Posted by dreadnaught
Yeah, sorry Lil, but you seriously need to adjust your attitude toward mental handicaps. It's strange you make the case against obvious mental disabilities and don't really touch the ones that are harder to identify. What about depression, alcoholism, OCD? You think people who suffer from those aliments should be erased?
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Yes, absolutely.
Why the f
uck do you think I'm not having kids??
We don't need another paranoid, depressive alcoholic with borderline personality disorder and anorexia (I'm currently in recovery) in this world. Nobody
wants that s
hit. I certainly never asked to be f
ucked up, but (surprise surprise) my entire ancestry is littered with mentally ill people.