Re: Re: Couple: We want a deaf baby; Throw out our hearin...

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I would say Pro-Disability Prejudice and Racial Impurity. They are trying to create a disabled person, which I find terribly cruel and unfair. These people should know what kind of life they will be subjecting their child to based on their own experiences. Therefore, they should be glad to have a hearing child. It is silly for them to think that doing something like this will force anyone to treated the disabled better. Quite the opposite. I think people will look at this and think them insane.

It is impurity because, strictly speaking, the disabled would be weeded out by natural selection in the real natural world. It is only our advanced society that has the resources to keep large number of these people alive. In more primitive cultures, if they could manage to earn their keep somehow they might be kept alive but probably not encouraged to breed. Others would probably be killed as children or would simply die of natural causes. It doesn't make sense to want to deliberately preserve bad genes in humanity. Goodness knows we are screwed up enough already.

In a message dated 3/14/2008 10:06:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

How sad and hypocritical that such people should value one form of life over another. I wonder what this form of discrimination would be called? "Racial prejudice"? "Racial purity"? Administrator It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money Finance.