Posted: Dec 27, 2011 11:46 am
cjoe1994 wrote:I have nothing against disabled people, but if someone can't work and has no one to work for them, why is their life so important? How is it fair that money is wasted on people who aren't particularly useful for much at all when money could easily be spent to save productive and important people and improve their quality of life?
Why not just humanely kill/"murder" them?
Is one's "importance" always and only ever a function of their capacity to work, their capacity to earn money?
Infant children cannot earn their keep - should they be euthanasia too?
Well that would be silly as there would be no-one to grow up to be a productive and important' person. Perhaps then we need to strangle disabled children at birth, but this does not address those who move from the 'important' category to the 'unimportant' category later in life - either through some illness or accident.
How are we to judge these people's relative importance? Who will draw up the criteria and head the panel?
And what do we do about the unproductive non-disabled members of society? Shouldn't we really be looking to euthanise all those who are unable to work regardless of their physical and/or mental capacity?