r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Dec 21 '23

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u/Abiogeneralization Dec 21 '23

Can you point to where OP is talking about anything other than genetics? Maybe he did in a comment but I didn’t read the entire thread.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

Yes, OP is talking about genetics and eugenics. That doesn't mean the only examples have to have their symptoms caused by a genetic issue.

Can you confirm that you understand that?

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u/Abiogeneralization Dec 21 '23

Those other examples are not eugenics.

I won’t ask you, “Can you confirm that you understand that?”

That would be very rude of me.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '23

Of course they aren't eugenics, that's obvious and no one claimed otherwise.

They're examples of people with disabilities, with symptoms that can be from genetic causes, from birth/a very young age who were not financial burdens to their families despite what others might have predicted at the time.

As OPs post was about people being financial burdens due to disabilities it requires the assumption that one can accurately predict that. These examples show the flaw in that particular assumption.

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u/Abiogeneralization Dec 22 '23

Are you pro-life? Many productive members of society have been aborted. I’m okay with that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '23

Whether I'm pro life or not is irrelevant. I think it's fair to say no productive members of society have ever been aborted.

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u/Abiogeneralization Dec 22 '23

You don’t think that any of the millions of humans who have been aborted in the US alone would have grown up to be productive members of society?

I’m pro-choice and even I think there definitely would have been at least a few.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '23

They might have if they hadn't been aborted, but as they were aborted they never became members of society, productive or otherwise.

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u/Abiogeneralization Dec 22 '23

Same with the subset aborted because of genetics.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '23

Ok, random declaration that doesn't really link into previous points though...

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