• lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today
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    9 days ago

    You have no moral obligation to have children at all, even if they’ll predictably have a happy life. So if their life will instead be predictably horrible (or if they will predictably ruin the lives of the people around them - plenty of severe mental disabilities seem much less horrible for the people themselves than for their caretakers), it’s very reasonable to avoid it.

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      8 days ago

      plenty of severe mental disabilities seem much less horrible for the people themselves than for their caretakers

      in germany we consider this as an original national-socialist thought and expressing such would disqualify you in public discourse.

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          In the way it is phrased I would second this. The problem is, that it faults the disabled person for the life problem of those around them (THEY are ruining other peoples life). The discourse never ever blames the disabled person here. Doing so will land you in a bad discussive corner - together with the common argumentation of nazis. Though the question of abortion (as stated by OP) is not as clear cut.