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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How am I arguing illogical?

Seriously, explain to me, how can anybody want to create a life that is objectively way at the lower end of quality of life? How can you justify shelling out thousands of euro/dollar/whatever for such a person, while others are left more or less to die?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Seriously, explain to me, how can anybody want to create a life that is objectively way at the lower end of quality of life?

"Objectively" does a lot of heavy lifting there. If you want to make the utilitarian argument, then make it, sure, but I don't think you'd find anyone advocating for not killing special needs people, but then turning around and agreeing that like, normal people should die, or suffer some dire fate in the stead of special needs people. I don't think we should really be pushing any orphans into the orphan crushing machine, personally, and I don't think it's probably an accurate dichotomy to say that the machine is inevitable.

If you also want arguments for why special needs people should be allowed to exist. People born without legs, they incur a certain cost on society, sure, but they also do a lot of good just by passively kind of existing. The ramps on the entrances of buildings, right, they're obviously for those people, but they can also be for elderly people who have a hard time with stairs, people who have lost their legs in some sort of incident, people who need to transport a large unwieldy piece of furniture. The ramps benefit everyone. If an intersection can be crossed properly by the blind, if it's designed for it, then, sure, it might not be the best idea, but you could cross it while on your phone, or reading a book, or generally distracted by whatever visual stimulus. And if we're doing all those things to accommodate people who aren't necessarily disabled, then it shouldn't matter that much whether someone is or isn't, because it doesn't cost us anything to just let them exist, and their insights can be valuable.

That doesn't even get in to how you might theoretically be able to, I dunno cure autism, or heart palpitations, or what have you, in the future, with gene therapy, making every life lost now kind of a short-sighted tragedy. Or how you could turn the logic around, and say, oh, well nobody really consents to being born, giving birth is unethical, like the psycho antinatalists do. Or how you could extend this logic to say, hey, maybe we should kill all old people, eliminate hospice care.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously, explain to me, how can anybody want to create a life that is objectively way at the lower end of quality of life? How can you justify shelling out thousands of euro/dollar/whatever for such a person, while others are left more or less to die?

Should we abort anyone with impoverished parents? After all, they have an objectively worse quality of life than wealthy people. Tell me exactly where you draw the line between "they will live a happy life" and "they should be killed, it's a mercy". Tell me exactly how you define "objectively way at the lower end of quality of life". Downs syndrome? Cancer? Asthma?

I mean honestly you just sound like an edgy teenager - safe bet that you probably are. But you need to realize there's a difference between cynicism and logic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should we abort anyone with impoverished parents?

Hm, could we may find a difference between nature and nurture? Would that be possible here? Even arguing like that is dishonest (or stupid, you decide).

Tell me exactly how you define "objectively way at the lower end of quality of life". Downs syndrome? Cancer? Asthma?

Tell me exactly how you define life. Birth? Conception? Somewhere it between?

How do you define adulthood? 14? 21? Something in between?

This argumentation, again, is dishonest. Decisions like that Steve clear cut. There's a mixture of scientific and cultural valuations at play. And at the end, you can make a cutoff at some point.

BTW: it's already perfectly normal practice to abort disabled children. There's a reason why there are relatively few people with down syndrome in Germany, they get aborted - and that much later than regular abortions. If someone would abort a healthy fetus at this stage, it would be considered murder.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

So you're willing to kill developmentally disabled babies, but unwilling to define developmentally disabled. Got it.