Mom of 11-year-old boy who was born with NO EYES details horrific abuse she faces from strangers - who say she should have 'aborted him' or 'put him down like a dog'

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[–]tiny-brown-mug 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

There was a very touching piece done by a Catholic program about an Evangelical couple who had chosen not to abort their severely disabled son. He was born with a large part of his brain missing, but they decided to keep him, and enjoy as much time with him as they could.

The YouTube comments were absolutely startling, at least to me. Everything from urging the parents to euthanize him, wondering out loud what kind of awful parents would refuse to abort a disabled kid. I didn't get it. Our society has really become this bad? Life is worth living but only if it's conventionally pretty?

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It is selfishness. The child would not live a fulfilling life and would need constant care at great expense, much like owning an exotic pet. Life is not all roses and bumble bees, sometimes there is necessary trauma. I do not agree with trolling the parents but I don't agree with sustaining a life of suffering for the pleasure of the parent.

[–]Alienhunter 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The YouTube comments are indeed despicable but if you are startled by such things you've clearly not spent much time online.

Internet is a cesspool. Expect horrible comments.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hear you. It just kind of amazed me how prevalent the attitude of "just kill him" was. And the anger, too. I feel that 20 years ago, there would have been more of a mix of voices.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Anti-disabled hatred is possibly the worst kind of discrimination out there and more or less un-tackled by they "be kind" classes.

The abuse and disgust towards the disabled is often shocking in how out of proportion it is to the actual harm of the disabilities. Lots of people are blind. They can live a relatively normal life It's not that big a deal compared to someone in permanent pain or a vegetable kept alive only by science. It's a real phobia, irrational fear or disgust.

The ableism movement does nothing about this, they just want everyone to validate them as just the same as everyone else which is not right either.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This part of it bugged me. We make all kinds of excuses for kids being rude and disruptive in the classroom, we excuse any and every mental health issue, we even enshrine gender dysphoria as a virtue or something to rejoice over. Yet a physically handicapped kid should be put down like a mad animal.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If anything it should be the reverse (but there is no way to determine that before birth).

The body is secondary to the mind.

A healthy mind can still do well with a bad body.

An crippled mind cannot do well even with a perfect body.

https://saidit.net/user/Vulptex/m/matrix

[–]NuclearBadger 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nobody cares that they're disabled.

Everyone cares that they get state money for keeping disabled.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Some lives are not worth living. But there's no way to determine that for sure prior to birth.

[–]sneako 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Christians are fucking evil damn. Only cumskin that won't be able to get asian pussy kekw. Well son hope the few virtue signaling updoots your 'rents got pumping you out is worth a lifetime of pain and misery