• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Should we abort anyone with impoverished parents?

    Hm, could we may find a difference between nature and nurture? Would that be possible here? Even arguing like that is dishonest (or stupid, you decide).

    Tell me exactly how you define “objectively way at the lower end of quality of life”. Downs syndrome? Cancer? Asthma?

    Tell me exactly how you define life. Birth? Conception? Somewhere it between?

    How do you define adulthood? 14? 21? Something in between?

    This argumentation, again, is dishonest. Decisions like that Steve clear cut. There’s a mixture of scientific and cultural valuations at play. And at the end, you can make a cutoff at some point.

    BTW: it’s already perfectly normal practice to abort disabled children. There’s a reason why there are relatively few people with down syndrome in Germany, they get aborted - and that much later than regular abortions. If someone would abort a healthy fetus at this stage, it would be considered murder.

    • Organichedgehog@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      So you’re willing to kill developmentally disabled babies, but unwilling to define developmentally disabled. Got it.