To be honest I find them quite irritating when their wranglers let them get out of hand. They will never contribute anything useful to society and they probably don't really enjoy life at all. Once such a genetic abnormality is removed from the human race, people will essentially be a little bit better off.

Whoa.

LOL @ Jason and Smokers.. The stoner one is dead on.


They create jobs and don't reproduce, so they don't fuck up the gene pool. Better off? Sure, probably, but not enough to justify whatever plan you have to get rid of them. Also, there are plenty who are more useful than normal dumba$$/ignorant people who enjoy sh*tting all over society.

Motivated handicap people > "normal" low-life pieces of sh*t

I don't think I've ever actually seen a severely mentally disabled person on a jobsite but I'm sure they're somewhere. What do they do when their caretakers die?

I'm not saying they're any more or less irritating than every other human being on the face of this planet, just excessively needy and mostly incapable of achieving things on a more complex level.

There's this really weird guy I see once in a while at one of the bus stops around where I work. He makes really awkward noises, digs around in the garbage, and smells like he's just shit himself. All I can think of is "isn't there someone to take care of this guy?" He's not homeless, just severely mentally stunted. We can talk all we want about compassion for the mentally retarded, but you can't deny that their behavior is just as irritating as a squirming, squealing, handsy child.

How do you know that? The downies I've met all seem to love their lives, which is more than most people on MB can say.

So if you had a choice, would you choose to be mentally retarded? Cause I wouldn't, and I'm sure 99% of the people on Earth, not only wouldn't want to be mentally retarded, but would be horrified at the possibility. I'm sure plenty of the mentally handicapped are perfectly happy, but don't pretend like you don't pity them.

Sorry, but your attitude toward people with Down Syndrome is some of the most insensitive, misguided **** I've ever seen.

It's like being insane, obviously you wouldn't want to be that way right now, but if you were you wouldn't even know any better.

Well, first of all, just because they're retarded, doesn't mean they're happy. I've spent plenty of time around the mentally retarded, and they're just as liable to be unhappy as anyone else.

And secondly...

As much as it would be nice to be insane, and be able to chill in an asylum all day with your pills and comfy jackets, you exist at the pleasure of others. A few hundred years ago, society would not have treated you well were you insane, but luckily, now we have psychiatrists, medication, institutions WITH STANDARDS, etc, all set up to take care of the insane.

Cause, you know, at a certain point, the insane aren't really capable of taking care of themselves, and at that point, they better hope to hell that the people who are taking care of them (doctors, family, courts) actually give a ****, cause they're not gonna have much of a say in the matter.

The retarded are kind of in the same boat. Depending on just how retarded they are, they may be completely incapable of living on their own. Some of them have to be bathed, and fed, and CHANGED. Most of them aren't that bad, but even they are only so in control of their lives. They're gonna be stuck working entry level jobs, since their mental capacities aren't going to allow them to get much farther. And thankfully there are actual laws in place, otherwise I'm sure employers would use their disabilities to completely take advantage of them (or at least even more than they assuredly do).

If they're lucky, they'll also be able to live on their own, but many don't, or can't. If so, they still have to live in a world where everyone around them is talking down to them, whether they realize it or not. The only "equals" they'll ever have, or at least people who will treat them as equals, will be the small number of other mentally-handicapped people they can find (unless you would be willing to date someone who is retarded, then you don't really consider them an equal, and don't pretend otherwise.)

I mean, really, the only reason why a mentally challenged person's life is happy, is because "normal" people feel enough sympathy for them to give them assistance, otherwise they'd pretty much be at the mercy of the world. I might be a miserable ****, but I'll take that over that.