you know....

[kuangning]

Appearing on television within twenty-four hours of your kid's admission that he planted 18 pipe bombs, and making the statement "my son is not a dangerous person" doesn't help his case. It only makes you look either feeble or plain fuckwitted.

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[kuangning]

PURPOSEFULLY having a blind, deaf, or mentally handicapped child is also grossly amoral.


That... still needs to be narrowed down, I think. For example, is it your belief that if a child is discovered in uteri to have a mental handicap or a physical abnormality, that child should be aborted? Because it certainly sounds like that's what you're advocating. Handicapped children, imo, have as much right to exist as non-handicapped, and I would only ever consider terminating another pregnancy (I've had one abortion in the past, when I was much younger) if the child in question would be in chronic pain, or be guaranteed to never be a productive adult. That issue is different from the one I think you meant, of setting out to deliberately conceive a handicapped child.

[kuangning]

I truly need to reread my work before hitting post. in utero, not uteri.

[fearghaill.livejournal.com]

I don't think he's talking about people who choose to accept the handicapped child fate as given them, but the people who actively choose and make an effort to ensure that thier child is handicapped.

For an example, if you haven't heard about it, a deaf lesbian couple (I only mention sexual orientation as it explains why they were looking for a sperm donor to begin with), actively chose a deaf sperm donor to increase the chances of the child being deaf. They succeeded.

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[kuangning]

*nod.* I did think that that was what he was referring to.

[galith.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is what I was refering to, things like that. I have mixed feelings on doing so without intention, but doing so with intention is very amoral.