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aes sedai
Can someone please tell me WHY people who know they have or carry a debilitating condition in their DNA go ahead and breed anyway? You see this on those Discovery Life shows all the time when the parents know very well what they are passing on but fuck that because we want a self-replicant. The suffering they see in their first kid obviously means nothing to them since they will then continue to breed more. Probably trying for a "perfect" one. What astounds me is how anyone afflicted with an illness, who has been through the misery themselves, would ever want to inflict that on another person. But they do, and often.
Re: "Generational disability" June 07, 2017 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 804 |
Sometimes you see that same attitude with deaf people too. I've heard some deaf parents being 'happy' if the child inherits the deaf condition.Quote
starlady
Brings to mind that 'little people' show where they all carry the gene for dwarfisim (and there are lots of medical complications with the condition) yet the two oldest boys are currently racing eachother to pop the magic grandchild. The show makes me nuts but you see plenty of it in the previews so you can kind of follow it. It's like "oh.. let's bring more defectos into the world" Happy happy happy!!!
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aes sedai
Can someone please tell me WHY people who know they have or carry a debilitating condition in their DNA go ahead and breed anyway? You see this on those Discovery Life shows all the time when the parents know very well what they are passing on but fuck that because we want a self-replicant. The suffering they see in their first kid obviously means nothing to them since they will then continue to breed more. Probably trying for a "perfect" one. What astounds me is how anyone afflicted with an illness, who has been through the misery themselves, would ever want to inflict that on another person. But they do, and often.
Like the assholes with cystic fibrosis who KNOW that their fatal disease is genetic and that they will be dead by their 30th birthday, but want to breed anyway. The possibility of passing on the disease (or at least causing future anguish by the child being a carrier) and the idea of the child losing a parent so early in life (and recent studies have shown that losing a parent in childhood sets up future psychological issues and is considered an Adverse Childhood Experience) either never occurs to these selfish assholes or they just don't care because their "right" to breed trumps the rights of any future person they create.
Bill Nye the Science Guy has even outright said to a person with cystic fibrosis who asked him about breeding, "DO NOT DO IT."
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Yeah, I don't quite get those with CF getting new lungs because all it really does is stave off the inevitable for a few more years, not resolve the issue. Those are lungs that can go to somebody that will live another few decades. Like that kid whose mother kicked up such a stink about getting her bumped up onto the adult waiting list. Her CF was already so bad to the point of needing a double lung transplant at age 10 that her new lungs might get her to 20, but she'll be right back where she was and she'll no longer be a kid so there's no leverage for her to get bumped up again (especially when two sets of donated lungs were wasted on her).
Re: "Generational disability" June 14, 2017 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,440 |
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Cambion
I think I remember that story. The only available lungs were adult-sized, so they had to be "trimmed" in order to fit a child's body, meaning she would need yet another transplant within a few short years using larger lungs that could support her growing body and growing need for air. Meanwhile, I'm sure plenty of adults for whom they would have been a perfect fit died waiting for necessary organs.
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As for me, I was diagnosed with a mental disability in my early twenties, and from that point forth decided never to breed. I'd already known I wouldn't do it, because I already hated kids, but that was a sign to me that I never wanted to do that. Not only would I pass my disease on to another human being, but the kid would be stuck with an unhappy mother who suffers with mood swings and shit. I don't love kids, but even if I did, why would I ever put one through that?
It just goes to show how selfish and self centered breeders can be. It's all about them and nobody else.