Anonymous #1 17w

yes, please do read the thread closely

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Anonymous OP 17w

the other person taking their side was saying how I couldn’t understand why eugenics isn’t Actually “100% bad” because in order to be able to think on their level I would have to work in the same field as them. I am not physically well enough to work but personally I feel pretty confident in my take on the unethical nature of eugenics

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Anonymous #2 17w

did you just say “that’s not a terrible thing” about eugenics

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Anonymous OP 17w

holy shit. so you would abort a child strictly on the basis that they were predisposed to having the same illnesses as you…? if your parents had done that you wouldn’t exist, a different person would have been born

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Anonymous #1 17w

btw, please notice the volume of upvotes on my initial reply to you about eugenics, by contrast to how this community of chronically ill people has received your own thoughts on the subject. and ponder what that might mean

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Anonymous OP 17w

i broadly agree with you but at the same time if someone is not equipped or doesnt want to take care of a disabled child why would you encourage them to keep and tjen raise that child. like do u think that would be a good childhood… also the “what if you had been aborted” is like every pro life persons argument i think u may need to reconsider some of what you’re saying

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Anonymous OP 17w

if someone isn't prepared to care for a disabled child then it's irresponsible for them to reproduce, period. same goes for if their child turns out to be gay or trans—unwilling? don't have a kid and come on, give me a break, I am staunchly pro-choice and that is a separate conversation from literal selective breeding

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Anonymous OP 17w

replying to my own self because someone left a weirdly patronizing reply and then seems to have immediately blocked me

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Anonymous OP 17w

like just because you think my argument Sounds similar to an anti-abortion trope, you’re gonna write me off when I’m railing against full-blown eugenics…? rather than taking a second to read the words I wrote and comprehend them as-is minus the kneejerk judgment? I expect a little more good faith than that

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Anonymous OP 17w

them believing they know better than actual disabled people about literal eugenics and saying eugenics isn’t bad is SO on brand with my experience with healthcare workers it’s not even fucking funny. they said we’re not educated enough to see that no one wants us alive

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Anonymous #6 17w

Also like not all these conditions are hereditary, mine was triggered by a virus (Covid). Like if they genuinely wanted to research this shit, then they should be doing real research, not asking random anonymous strangers a question

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Anonymous #4 17w

they are also disabled though?

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Anonymous #8 17w

yeah, real, I don’t actually want anybody invalidating them on that it’s just highly alarming how quick they are to try to separate themselves from other disabled folks they look down on, talking like those of us who don’t work in the medical field are incapable of sensible & informed perspectives on these issues

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Anonymous #7 17w

for sure, eugenics / eugenicist rhetoric takes a handful of different shapes some of the exchanges I’ve had on here these last couple days got me feeling defensive, legit appreciate you specifying that you’re elaborating rather than rejecting what I said

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Anonymous OP 17w

idk why this is being downvoted, I’m just referring to the fact that for instance genocide and selective breeding are both examples of eugenics because some amount of people hear “eugenics” and only think to associate it with the kind that involves slaughtering people who are already alive

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