A Defence of Eugenics

[dotinthesky]

I stopped at the supermarket on my way home. Coming out, I nearly tripped over a toddler. Her father, a curly-haired figure with beady eyes and a five-o'clock shadow, apologised for her. I said it was no problem and fell behind them. When the little girl turned the wrong corner, her father said "come over here, you stupid cow."

"Silly?" She asked. She made some noises that she didn't want to walk anymore.

"You are a lazy cow. Now come over here. You are a pain in the ass." He picked her up. "Now look what you've done, I have to carry the beer with my other hand." He was carrying a container with six cans of beer.

I was speechless. Mind, she didn't seem phased at all. She kept chattering to him as if it was all very normal.

Comments

Re: stepping on toes

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

This doesn't piss me off, I'm not altogether certain I want to breed, though I am hetero(flexible), but who's to say who's fit and who isn't? I mean, just being poor isn't enough to say the kids won't be loved. And if poor people should be allowed to have kids, then how can you determine any reliable means of determining who should and shouldn't breed? There are certain, indefensible ones, though - such as extreme mental illness or retardation. Sorry, snip 'em. What else....mmmm....I can't think of much else except maybe pedophelia, confirmed.

Re: stepping on toes

[sor-eye-ah.livejournal.com]

Sadly even if you are a retard under most government laws "these people still have the -right- to breed. If they then proove to be unsuitable as parents the child will be removed from their care." And so on and so forth, so they can just keep popping them out.

I know this because my brother has a severe genetic disability which he will pass onto any children he fathers, yet the law forbids my parents from doing anything to prevent bad situations. As my Mum put it "we're being nice, at least if he's snipped he can still have hankypanky if he wants without having to worry about the side affects". Department of Human Services are fuckheads.

Am just very shocked my parents 'you don't have sex until you're married' trick has held up for so many years!

Re: stepping on toes

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Yep, here my mom's friend adopted a girl with pretty bad schiztophrenia. She popped out two - one severely autistic (the violent kind) and one a sweet "doorknob" as my mother's ex-husband used to say. Then finally after it became obvious she wouldn't take any precautions and was not fit to parent or breed, she was "fixed".