Little transgressive angels
A while ago I saw a Down syndrome woman, who I guess was about 20 years old. This felt quite surreal, since it's been a really
long time since I have last seen anybody with Down syndrome. She seemed
exceptionally dull even for the extra-chromosome crowd, though, since
she mostly slowly oscillated her upper body so that her forehead
touched the wall. Her mouth was gaping open all the time and her eyes
were vacant.
When I was young, it was far more common to see
people with Down syndrome. I wonder what has changed so radically since
then? The post "“What if your mother was pro-choice?” II"
gives one answer, when the leftist poster gloats about the fact that
his/her (?) mother aborted a fetus who was diagnosed as having the Down
syndrome. Without any sarcasm or irony whatsoever, I applaud such honesty from a leftist. As the comment thread quickly shows, such a demonstration of honesty will not go unpunished.
The
comment thread becomes especially hilarious when the disability rights
crowd comes in and the commenters try to tiptoe around the leftist
policy that a woman can always have an abortion and nobody else can
have any say about it, which in this situation conflicts in a very
nasty way with the leftist policy that disabled people are morally
superior and have an inherent right to live starting from the moment of
conception.
As usual, the majority of people in the real world
tend to reject leftist policies whenever they are put to a free market
test. But hopefully in the future, genetic technologies advance so that
Down syndrome babies can be created at will, and both leftists and
fundies and any other "mental disability is wonderful and it's just social construction of patriarchy
that mentally disabled people don't achieve as much as the rest of us"
-idiots who actually believe that people with Down syndrome are morally
superior when compared to us normos get to demonstrate their beliefs in
the real world.
Certain commenters also seem to take offense to the idea that people have different "worth". I don't, since as I see it, I have never
seen anybody even remotely behaving as if this was the case. We can't
even define or measure the "worth" of different people in any real
sense, so why would we assume that everybody has exactly equal worth?
There are two logically complementary and mutually exclusive
possibilities:
- There are at least two people in the world who have different worth.
- All people everywhere have equal worth, including you, me, Adolf Hitler, the above woman with the Down syndrome, a newborn baby, an old person lying in his deathbed etc.
Given these two choices, I know that I will choose door #1. How about you?
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