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Originally posted by marichiko
What about responsible, normal intelligence parents who have a child with down's syndrome, as just one example. And why do you want to let "the system" off the hook? Like it or not, there is always going to be a "system" of one sort or another. Do you advocate that it do as it pleases with no accountability to anyone? What's so damn responsible about that?
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You're misunderstanding me. If an individual can take care of themselves, then they should be able to take care of another person. I am not advocating letting "the system" off the hook; I'm saying that the system is extremely overburdened, and the children in that system suffer because of it. I don't think that ANYONE should be able to breed rampantly. ANYONE. You shouldn't have more children than you can take care of; if you're not competent to take care of yourself, you shouldn't be allowed to put yourself in the position of taking care of someone else who may suffer from your incompetence; if you abuse children, you should not be able to breed little ready-made victims.
I don't think that the system should be allowed to do as it pleases with no accountability. However, the system is already overburdened. It's like filling up a five-gallon container with infinite amounts of water...it can only hold so much, and the rest goes right over the edge and gets lost. You try having 100+ families that you, as ONE person, have to keep track of...a single person can only do so much.
Let's just lose the word "sterilization" for a minute, and replace it with ENFORCED BIRTH CONTROL. What's wrong with that? Would you let your 13-year-old have a child? Of course not. Why? Because you know she's not mature enough to take care of a child. She may be old enough to be subject to sexual desire, and may be physically old enough to breed, but she's not competent to take care of a helpless infant.
Well, most, if not ALL, profoundly retarded people are mentally below the intelligence and emotional maturity level of a teenager. If your teenager isn't mature enough to take care of a child, what makes you think a profoundly retarded person IS? Just because the body is mature doesn't mean the mind is. Some of these people (according to a few friends I have who work in the state school) have to be put in diapers because they can't understand or remember toilet-training. How are they going to understand taking care of a baby?
"Oh, and if you're going to neuter people, you better not stop at the disabled, you better also hit the homeless, people who are poor, people who have off-main political ideas, and for good measure, complete arseholes."
I'm not saying someone who is DISABLED should not be able to have children; I'm saying that profoundly retarded people should be on enforced birth control. There's a difference. And if the arseholes are abusing their children, yes, I think they should be straight-up STERILIZED. People bitch and complain about how murderer A and serial rapist B had such HORRIBLE childhoods, full of abuse...yet they have no problem with letting the parents of murderer A and rapist B have MORE children to abuse....then they bitch that SOMEBODY should've DONE something....
And you're just being absurd with the rest.
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