would you support the right for parents to legally end the life of children who are proven beyond-a-doubt to be severely, permanentally mentally handicapped; e.g., cannot function on their own, needs help going to the bathroom, cannot be left unsupervised
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I think i woulda predicted 60% no, but i didn't consciously register a prediction beforehand
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Non-voluntary, active euthanasia due to inconvenience, very cool! 👍
On a serious note, this is the same logic used to put down dogs that are too sick due to age, now being applied to children. I'm perplexed by these results. 👀
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I'm reminded of an account i read by a woman who had to quit her job, her savings were being drained, and she was unable to have a life outside of caring for her severely developmentally disabled son. She knew this would be the rest of her life and she hated him.
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why are the only choices a) forcing a disabled person's family to care for them by themselves at their own expense or b) killing them
our hominid ancestors figured out how to care for their disabled comrades hundreds of thousands of years ago: as a group, not as individuals
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tbf if your'e gonna use history as an example for how people treated the disabled idk if it's gonna really help your case
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Jesus, the current results of this poll are darker than I expected. But given the number of disabled people who are just warehoused by family, I probably shouldn’t have been surprised.
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Follow this up with a ‘are you a sibling or a parent of a .. / would you support’
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As a parent of once such child, this is bloody disgusting. Absolutely infuriating that you would view my child as dispensable and even have the gall to raise this for discussion.
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