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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Fine. So where do we go from here?
Kill everyone born with a birth defect?
Euthanize the elderly when diagnosed with a deadly disease?
Selective breeding?
Cloning the healthy?
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That would be a discussion worth having. Turning it into a "Europeans are bad" slam is one way to avoid having it.
My understanding of the article, though, was that it was talking about babies born with terminal illnesses -- i.e., those with a few minutes, hours, maybe days to live. Going from killing a baby who will die after a few (excrutiangly painful) hours (or just not treating that baby and letting him or her suffer and die) to "selective breeding" or "kill everyone with a birth defect" is an enormous leap. And one that neither Europe nor America has made despite apparently engaging in the former practice for many years now.
If an elderly person wanted to be euthanized rather than live through a few months of terminal bone cancer, I wouldn't stop him.
