Quote from: SM on Sep 20, 2010, 11:00:23 PM
Anti-abortion, but pro-eugenics. Such a dilemma...
What I say is that, on one side, preventing the birth of a down child would prevent him/herself from the progressing pain and suffering that the down condition causes. Some cases lead to death. And there's also the moral of the parents. How would they react to having a down child? Would they cure him/her, or would they give half-a-shit about it? This would influence the qualit of the life of the child.
On the other, it is always the cruel crime of killing a life, and cutting a possibility when it's growing... Down syndrome is progressive and can't be erased, and this can't be changed. But it indeed can be cut back somehow, like vines, through different methods such as surgical operations, to adjust things like the overlong tongue, disproportional jaws, etc. For the IQ... *shrugs* I don't know, but a lower IQ doesn't mean you can't be inserted into society. Some down syndromed people are even actors.
As for other things I really hate - people who kill Alligators, Crocodiles, Snakes, Lizards and other Reptiles either to do some kind of food or to make bags, shoes and belts... the latter especially I hate, it's nauseatingly cruel.