Rule -> RE: Lawmaker advocates eugenics (3/13/2011 9:00:08 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin I do agree some aspects of eugenics might be beneficial to future societies, but we are not the future societies, so we cannot say. Here I would like to draw your attention to the disabled, especially the most disabled, those with a brain that functions as much as to sustain life, despite the fact that the body cannot respond, one might ask, what use to society are they. My simple answer to that, is what use are we, if we cannot connect with those that on ordinary levels are noncommunicable. I refuse to accept the majorly disabled are of no use to society, as lets face it, a life sitting doing what appears to us as not a great deal, who knows the strength and ability of that mind and where it wanders. Maybe those that are the most disabled are the organic computers we seek . As to those that think those that do not try are the feckless that believe life as it is everything will come to them, the lowest common denominator in your society, could it even be societal approach is wrong, for again I fail to accept there are wasters in humanity, everyone was designed for something, but maybe it is us, we lack the ability to see beyond the life we know. I agree up to a degree. I was watching episodes from Andromeda Ascendant first season last night. One of the intro's stated "How a society treats its elderly, prisoners and pets is a reflection of their level of civilization", or something like that. One of my friends has spent just about her entire life in a wheelchair due to an inherited muscle disease. Yet despite her severe disabilities she leads a productive life. Our society and technology enables her to be this productive. On the other hand there are economics and the well-being of the population to consider. Hunger used to have a huge impact on societies. Hereabouts one thousand or more years ago, two brothers were about to kill their useless father in the woods - as he had killed his own father for the same reason - when a noble lady came upon the scene and gave them her valuable necklace so that they might buy him food. Migrating Indians in North America used to have a feast for their infirm and to leave them behind the next day to die alone in the wilds. Myself I have hardly ever worked, yet I consider myself extremely valuable for humanity - as I hope to prove one day when publicizing and getting recognition for a few of my many scientific discoveries. And how about the useless domly dom, sitting on his throne and ordering his subs about?
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