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OftenBen  ·  1458 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Last Children of Down Syndrome

I value human life too much to see it wasted and abused as we continue to do when we have the tools and knowledge to do better.





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OftenBen  ·  1458 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah I've never once given thought to that idea in all my literal years of study of the issue while in college, while in my ongoing and repeated ethics training at work and in my private reading and study on medical ethics. Has never occured.

You, and steve here are advocating for the spread of disease.

user-inactivated  ·  1458 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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OftenBen  ·  1458 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Continue to advocate for the spread of disease.

Devac  ·  1457 days ago  ·  link  ·  

OB, there's a difference between 'not agreeing with your' and 'supporting the opposition in your head'. You have years of training in ethics, I know you're knowledgeable of genetics and medicine. Laudable! Please, use them, and try talking to people like they're not going to, I don't know, disagree with you just because disease are so gosh darn fun. Nevralgic topic aside, lumping everyone who isn't giving you 100% unquestioned support into one bag, the selfish unenlightened far/alt-right Trump-supporting bible-thumping COVID-denying scum as I presume, insults everyone.

Can't you see it, or you just don't care? And before you say some variant of "to hell with manners, this is WAR!", you really, really should care. Not because honey gets more flies than vinegar, but because angry shouting only works on spineless, children or people already intimidated by you.

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