As a mother of a child who has suffered, and will face many challenges, I am sickened by this. I could go on and on about the social implications of the attitude, that those who are different or suffer should be snuffed out...It opens a scary Pandora's box. Mercy killings all 'round then.
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tell you otherwise is selling something."- The Man in Black
But life is also joy. And my family, including my "unfortunate" son, experience joy on a daily basis.
Is what motivates us love or subconcious selfishness?
So, Virginia Ironside...You must have suffered through life with those social skills. Do you wish your mother had "lovingly" smothered you with a pillow as you slept?
Ok, that was snarky and I apologize. I'm sure she's not as horrible as she sounds-- in fact, she seems sincere, but also completely unqualified to make this statement. Until you have loved a child who has suffered, I'm not sure you should say anything like this.
Of course nobody likes to see suffering and we wish it could end...but the inference that a "good mom" would kill her child rather than care for and suffer with the child, is a bit twisted. We're not talking about shooting a horse with a bum leg here (though that seems rather severe to me also).
Can.Of. Worms.
If anyone with a "smother pillow" even gets near this sleeping angel, the wrath of this "good mom" will swoop down on you like a Jo Storm.
Enough said.
What do you all think?
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AND second of all - I'M WITH YOU TOO!
I think most of us mothers are. I get chills thinking about it.
Raaaaaargh!
I too am with you.
Take care,
Yvonne.
Blegh...should't have watched this right before bed. I'll join your Jo Storm as well.
Virginas' language is important. She said something like, "It is just getting rid of a group of cells." When we start to devalue human life at any stage or condition, we start a slippery slope to horror. The Africans seen as "animals", "primitive",... terminology to justify slavery. Jews seen as "parasites" to justify rounding them up into camps and killing them. As long as we think of "us" and "them", the seeds are planted for abuse. I understand this conversation started in the context of an abortion discussion. The term "fetus" is used to separate that this is a human life, yet "fetus" is latin for "unborn child". How the discussion could change if spoke as "unborn child" vs. "a group of cells".
Keep churning your JoStorm, beautiful woman!
Life is precious just because it is so fragile. Should someone have done a kindness to Helen Keller with mercy killing?
None of us should step into the role of God -- we don't have the job qualifications.
I remember being appauled when an American scientist was confronted with the atrosities done by the Nazis in their experimentation on humans. A reporter decried the work as not being science.
The scientist looked puzzled. "Of course it was science. They were carefully followed experiments. They were against the laws of Man, of course, but they were science."