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To: syriacus
Justification for terminating all mentally retarded people?

Didn't the Nazis do the same thing?

96 posted on 08/30/2003 11:22:20 AM PDT by expatguy
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To: expatguy
Justification for terminating all mentally retarded people?

At this rate there will be justification for terminating any adult who can't earn his own keep.

Too many of the elderly already think the world would be better off without them, that they are too much trouble, etc. I wish they would realize that an attitude like that is wrong.

They are not only portraying their lives as worthless. By extension, they are buying into the argument that people who are severely handicapped are worthless.

It's important for people to realize that all humans are precious. If any "class" of human beings is not considered "innately" worthy of life, then all classes of humans lack an innate worthiness.

Some people were right when they warned we would start down a "slippery slope" at the time abortion was liberalized.

99 posted on 08/30/2003 12:55:55 PM PDT by syriacus (Return, O Lord. How long? Ps 90:13)
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