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splifyphus posted:Rewiring the brains of autistic people would fundamentally change who they are as people, and even they themselves can't effectively make that decision, having no idea what it's like to be anything but what they are. It's not like having a neurotypical brain is so loving wonderful all the time either. It's obvious that the only ethical way to handle this is to take a vote. Force the treatment on him to get the neurotypical vote, then turn him back to get the autistic vote. If they can't agree, ties are broken by Joe Biden. VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jun 29, 2014 |
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SedanChair posted:Now, having said that. Does it in any way disquiet you that parents might someday selectively abort homosexual or transgender fetuses? Just think about the question all by itself, don't worry about your answer making it onto a pro-life pamphlet or something, because it's not going to. Would it be OK if transgender or homosexual people were screened out and vanished from the earth? This doesn't strike me as a sensible comparison because the burdens of having a homosexual, transgender, or female (in the case of sex selection) child (besides the imaginary ones stemming from the parents' own bigotry) are an artificial creation of a wider homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic society. In societies that place large financial burdens on people who have daughters, it's the logical result that some fraction people will respond to those incentives by sex selection. On the contrary, the burden of having an autistic child is a very real thing. We don't have to condemn mothers for aborting baby girls: unlike screaming at poor desperate women, fighting the misogynistic policies will solve the sex-selection problem .
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Jun 29, 2014 03:17
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SedanChair posted:I agree completely. I also think that a society with less stingy availability of resources for parents and which is more tolerant of different levels of social engagement and difference in general would be one in which more autistic people would find a place and cease to be a burden. No argument here. It's a crime that our society makes having a special needs child an economic burden.
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