Question for the right wingers

[Lady Sidhe]

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?

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.


Sidhe