PaintMyHouse
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- Feb 24, 2014
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Well my older sibling might have cured cancer, or might have set the world on fire? One never knows so that argument holds no water. You are either here or you aren't.Did we abort Bach? Sure, same chance as aborting Hitler. It works both ways.
And had you been aborted because of your disability, you wouldn't have felt a thing so stop taking it personally. 90% of Downs kids are aborted, it should be 100% as we already have too many healthy children we aren't caring for properly. Life is brutal, as in, the only reason I'm here is because my older sibling was spontaneously aborted. That's how it works but get your mind out of the "but I could have been aborted" BS. That's true for every person on this planet, and that doesn't even include the 50% of conceptions that didn't even make it that far. They never missed a thing as far as they're concerned. You wouldn't have cared either as you wouldn't have had the ability to. As I said, brutal, now deal with it like an adult.
That's wonderful in the Liberal-think world where there is no overarching Divine plan for the world. Unfortunately, for those of us who believer there is a Divine plan, at least in outline form, those potential lives that were aborted "might have been....." and now we may never get whatever it is they could have offered society. If one were to assume that only one mind in history has the capability of finding the cure for Cancer, what happens if/when we abort that life? I understnad that is not how you see the world but some of us do.
On a personal note, there are many times when I wonder if things wouldn't have been better had I never been born. Both for me and for others around me.
And Anathema , I have to be careful here, as to the price paid there always is one, for all of us, but ask them if they'd trade their lives for a life without you in it and you'll discover they wouldn't have. I like to keep the costs down so I prefer people as healthy as possible. That's the brutal economics of it, most women can always have another baby, but whether you would have been better off is harder to say. Given a choice, knowing what I know, I wouldn't have bothered with this little hell on earth we call human life but those close to me like that I'm around. I would imagine it's the same on your end, it usually is. The phrase, "Can't imagine my life without you" is what you are most likely to hear, and it's almost always entirely true. You may have very well really fucked things up for some by being born alive, and most times they wouldn't have it any other way. That is the life they know, and they wouldn't trade it for the world. Think on that as well.
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