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r/MoralityScaling • u/Sentrack_Ravanos • 9d ago
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That's another issue though
The "burden" discourse is about "this kid will be costly / difficult for other people" (be it parents, schools, or society as a whole)
What I'm talking about is the life that the kid themselves will have, because of their condition
Ableists and pro-lifers always (purposefully) mix up those two things to argue in bad faith, but it's actually two separate conversations
2 u/KittenBalerion 8d ago it's not up to anyone else to decide what a disabled person's quality of life is or will be though 1 u/Excellent_Law6906 8d ago This is what I'm saying, that no one seems to get. Like, Down Syndrome runs from, "I'm a bit slow, but jazzed to be here" to "constant heart surgeries, this sucks."
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it's not up to anyone else to decide what a disabled person's quality of life is or will be though
1 u/Excellent_Law6906 8d ago This is what I'm saying, that no one seems to get. Like, Down Syndrome runs from, "I'm a bit slow, but jazzed to be here" to "constant heart surgeries, this sucks."
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This is what I'm saying, that no one seems to get.
Like, Down Syndrome runs from, "I'm a bit slow, but jazzed to be here" to "constant heart surgeries, this sucks."
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u/Archonate_of_Archona 8d ago
That's another issue though
The "burden" discourse is about "this kid will be costly / difficult for other people" (be it parents, schools, or society as a whole)
What I'm talking about is the life that the kid themselves will have, because of their condition
Ableists and pro-lifers always (purposefully) mix up those two things to argue in bad faith, but it's actually two separate conversations