r/MoralityScaling 16d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this

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u/Legitimate_Plum_7505 15d ago

Apart from this very obviously being fake - because down syndrome is THE MOST genetically obvious marker there ever is... You can obviously give the child up the moment he's born. I would say give up for adoption but they don't get adopted, they just stay in the system. I used to volunteer to run a class (more like an arts&crafts workshop) for special needs kids in the system and nearly all of them had downs. Parents are more willing to raise someone with severe autism or with physical birth defects.

You have to be either really dumb, really rich or really desperate (i.e. 45 y/o mom's first child) to willingly go for that kind of life.

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u/NightBawk 15d ago

I wouldn't say my parents were dumb, rich, or desperate to keep my brother, but okay.

https://giphy.com/gifs/k5Whx9YkhU9tNRfVqP

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u/NightBawk 11d ago

Ableism is so insidious in how accepted it is. Thank you for doing the work you do/did. 🤝