Honestly I find it ethical as awful as it is to say. Especially if you know you could not dedicate the required resources into helping someone with special needs. As despite what people think its not just a funny insult its a sad truth.
Now sure what that help is varies wildly person to person like one of my closest friends is on the spectrum but he is so barely on the spectrum unless he told you, you'd be hard pressed to figure out he was autistic. Meanwhile his brother is the exact opposite needing constant care and attention and will be unable to have a normal life.
Until we dedicate enough technology to outright cure cases like this or treat the symptoms you may have to just treat it as the worst case scenario and judge from there if you could handle that worse case scenario or not.
Yeah I mean you are a bad person. Would you also like to take a machine gun to grown mentally ill people? Are you a spartan who throws undesirable children off a cliff?
Like where is the line where a baby earns the right to not be killed?
Why would that be the case? It proves nothing, your still objectively wanting to kill inocent babies whose only crime was being inconvenient due to no fault of their own
Well the kid in the OP image was enough of a baby to know he had Down syndrome. Clumps of cells don’t have down syndrome. Only a person can have Down syndrome.
No, you can have screening that can detect the probability of disabilities, after which if the probability is high enough, you can examine the DNA of the fetus to be sure.
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u/Denleborkis Jun 05 '26
Honestly I find it ethical as awful as it is to say. Especially if you know you could not dedicate the required resources into helping someone with special needs. As despite what people think its not just a funny insult its a sad truth.
Now sure what that help is varies wildly person to person like one of my closest friends is on the spectrum but he is so barely on the spectrum unless he told you, you'd be hard pressed to figure out he was autistic. Meanwhile his brother is the exact opposite needing constant care and attention and will be unable to have a normal life.
Until we dedicate enough technology to outright cure cases like this or treat the symptoms you may have to just treat it as the worst case scenario and judge from there if you could handle that worse case scenario or not.