"Letting someone go through life like that is just cruel." Saying that is just cruel. You don't know how happy people with developmental issues are going to be in life. As a person with two brothers with Down Syndrome, I tell you, they are quite happy with their lives. To claim creating someone's life with a slightly higher chance of their being a developmental issue is torture for the person you just created is a terrible way of thinking. Do you agree with genociding disabled people, because, according to what you're saying, they live torturous awful lives, and it's better for them to have never been created in the first place. If it's better to not even risk creating a disabled person than to create a person who probably isn't disabled, then wouldn't it makes sense to kill all of the disabled people that are still alive, if their lives are so horrifically torurous? You don't know how happy these people are or are going to be; you shouldn't go killing them or preventing them from ever existing in the first place just because you think they'll be unhappy.
My cousin who is 20 says I'm stupid for thinking of getting pregnant at 35?
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"Letting someone go through life like that is just cruel." Saying that is just cruel. You don't know how happy people with developmental issues are going to be in life. As a person with two brothers with Down Syndrome, I tell you, they are quite happy with their lives. To claim creating someone's life with a slightly higher chance of their being a developmental issue is torture for the person you just created is a terrible way of thinking. Do you agree with genociding disabled people, because, according to what you're saying, they live torturous awful lives, and it's better for them to have never been created in the first place. If it's better to not even risk creating a disabled person than to create a person who probably isn't disabled, then wouldn't it makes sense to kill all of the disabled people that are still alive, if their lives are so horrifically torurous? You don't know how happy these people are or are going to be; you shouldn't go killing them or preventing them from ever existing in the first place just because you think they'll be unhappy.