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Here comes the "Eug3n¡cs" comments but i think its really selfish to bring a child, who will 90% have the same genetic condition (already giving you a very poor quality of life), into the world you know how it feels, why put that onto a poor kid?
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Anonymous 1w

Agree, Iceland cured Down’s syndrome by selective aborting it out of their population and they’re studying how it can be used for severe autism and stuff like that too. I wish to the universe every day I didn’t have ADHD or autism

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Anonymous 1w

If they say eugenics they are not suffering from a shitty genetic condition I swear 😔 not saying to make it illegal but please decide if it’s worth the risk to your child

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Anonymous 1w

Note that there’s a difference between saying it’s personally selfish for someone to knowingly do that vs having some law mandating what kinds of people are allowed to reproduce. You should be able to support the first one without being accused of wanting the second.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Genuinely hate these conditions they’ve ruined my life

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

you can say whatever you want about liking or disliking it but that is the literal definition of eugenics 🧌

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

asking out of genuine curiosity not trying to be disrespectful, when you say this, do you mean you wish you were dead instead? (aborted)

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

Letter of the law sure but not the spirit, unless you think someone suffering from a condition should be considered a desirable or neutral trait

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

Well I don’t want to not exist but it would have been nice for the genetics to have been aborted away like how natural selection used to work on ancient humans (the ones who couldn’t sweat or had a useless tail died off)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

oh i see so ur saying u would have liked to sacrifice urself and others like u to better the gene pool?

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

Its exactly what #4 says. People throw around the word as if im saying we should make it illegal for people to reproduce because of their genetic condition which is not the point I am making

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

or do u just mean u think u should never have kids and neither should others like u?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

I just think if you and your partner are physically incapable of walking or moving your arms because it could hospitalize you and you decide to have a kid you will 100% pass it onto its just selfish

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

but making it illegal or not illegal is not in the definition of eugenics either, i just don’t understand why u would be offended that people use that word

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

Im not offended nor am I saying thats the definition. With posts like this in the past, people USED that word as an insult or to make people out to be horrible for having thoughts that align with it

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

But also that word has a bad past as well so its not a word that would be good to use

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

I’m iffy on kids idk if I want them but a lot of my friends who also struggle with mental never want any

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

And I’m only iffy on wanting kids because I wouldn’t want them to end up like me in a world where your own brain and hormones are against you

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

well yes, but the reason that word has a bad past is because this line of thinking of “some genes are inferior to others” has led to terrible things happening in history. that is why some are incredibly cautious about the slippery slope of eugenics and understandably so

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

ok i’m trying to understand here are you saying u wish ur parents had aborted u (had they known u would end up like u did) and u think it was selfish that they didn’t?

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

Yea i understand, thats kinda what I was saying

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

Op is saying they AREN’T saying they’re in support of those terrible things in history people would like to accuse them of for making this post. Saying intentionally having a kid who will have a horrible quality of life is bad is NOT them saying people should be forcibly sterilized or not allowed to reproduce etc.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

Thank you! Like I thought I was wording it poorly

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Anonymous replying to -> twirling_tornado 1w

you're objectively, definitionally correct. they're just defensive

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

It’s also like. Shitty to tell someone that they don’t have the right to be having kids. As someone who’s been told it. Does not feel fucking excellent.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1w

It definitely is. I see the post more as a general thought but not something that should ever be targeted at an individual, especially not like that. Whether you have kids is YOUR choice and your right not anyone else’s!

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