The fascinating thing about this is that it's very rarely consistent, it's always ableist The same people who think it's monstrous to imagine a world where doctors can give people wings think it would be monstrous to NOT give paraplegic people the ability to walk, if you couldhttps://twitter.com/loudpenitent/status/1304856800315883521 …
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It's a kind of typical melodramatic beat that feels gross in hindsight An abled author putting the words in the mouth of a disabled character that even the ability to walk and run isn't "worth it" if it makes human life "inauthentic", whatever that means
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Anyway the whole thing is gross, the false dilemma is gross Their imaginary society committed a grave injustice by putting all the people who refused to use a surrogate on a "meatbag reservation", but blowing up all the surrogates is an even worse injustice
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They're both the same kind of injustice, a denial of autonomy, saying you don't have the right to do whatever the hell you want with your body
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(The movie, btw, was worse than the comic in every way and we don't talk about it here)
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