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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

Yes
19.7%
No
80.3%

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Henry Fitzgerald

@HenryTarquin

Mar 9, 2021

That is indeed the strongest argument for "no"

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You mean if people only murder disabled people it’s ok? Jesus

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The vast majority of disabled people don't fall into the extreme circumstances Aella describes.

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lol yeah this is like "Do you support laws that prevent breeding bulldogs" and then someone responds "wait so you wanna prevent breeding animals if they're dogs?"

12:02 AM · Mar 10, 2021

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Sigh. So now disabled people are dogs? Also the question wasn’t about sterilization of pets. It was about killing living people who were deemed sufficiently “severely” disabled. Your examples were very broad and not at all “clear.”

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I was drawing a parallel between fallacies in arguments, not between the objects in the argument.

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