View Poll Results: If we could eliminate disabilities from the population, should we?
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Yes
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I Don't Know
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10-07-2004, 08:53 PM
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If we could eliminate disabilities from the population, should we?
Hap gave me the idea of starting a controversial poll. I hope this one gets some good discussion. I first posted this question on some newsgroups years ago for a biology report. Please explain your answer as best you can. After you are done with my forum, go vote on Hap's poll!
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Last edited by gambitnut : 10-08-2004 at 11:38 AM.
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10-07-2004, 10:47 PM
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By ridding disabilities from the population, do you mean curing all disabled people of their disabilities?
That is an interesting question.
I think that it would have to be up to the people with the disabilities to decide for them selves.
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10-07-2004, 11:22 PM
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As in killing them off? No, that's barbaric. I speak as someone, who feels at one time or another, I will probably be suffering from some physical ailment, even though I am extremely healthy, I can feel these things.
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10-07-2004, 11:38 PM
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Yes...If the oppertunity were there i say rid the disabilties from the pop..Great idea if could be done
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10-07-2004, 11:56 PM
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If disabilities can be identified in the developing fetus and fixed prior to birth, as medicine may be able to do in the not-too-distant future, I am entirely for that. Why should someone go through life with a handicap, if it is preventable?
If this poll is asking whether disabled people should be killed, prior to birth or after birth, I'd certainly be against that. I'm sure those with disabilities would tell you that they live perfectly fulfilled lives even with a handicap...it would be outrageous to take that away.
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10-08-2004, 01:30 AM
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What's a disability?
Who gets to define it?
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10-09-2004, 06:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by George W Bush!
Come on people. It's a simple poll. Either vote yes or no. Don't flip flop.
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A Buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor and says "Make me one with everything".
when will the loss of life end?
I wish I had a coat of silk, the color of the sky.
I wish I had a lady fair, as any butterfly
I wish I had a house of stone that looked down on the sea
But most of all I wish that I was someone else but me.
Now I don't have a coat of silk, but I still have the sky
Now I don't have a lady, but there goes a butterfly
Now I don't have a house of stone, but I can see the sea
Now most of all I know that I am happy to be me.
I'm happy to be me.
I'd like to say I made this, but I didn't
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10-09-2004, 06:26 PM
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BasketballBoards Star
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You mean get rid of them by killing people or not allowing people to have kids or somethin like that or just magically make them all go away???
If the latter, absolutely.
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10-09-2004, 07:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Hap AKA George Bush!
Come on people. It's a simple poll. Either vote yes or no. Don't flip flop.
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I don't mind people picking any of the four options as long as they explain their point of view.
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10-09-2004, 07:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by gambitnut!
I don't mind people picking any of the four options as long as they explain their point of view.
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that was just my political satire post of the day.
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A Buddhist walks up to a hot dog vendor and says "Make me one with everything".
when will the loss of life end?
I wish I had a coat of silk, the color of the sky.
I wish I had a lady fair, as any butterfly
I wish I had a house of stone that looked down on the sea
But most of all I wish that I was someone else but me.
Now I don't have a coat of silk, but I still have the sky
Now I don't have a lady, but there goes a butterfly
Now I don't have a house of stone, but I can see the sea
Now most of all I know that I am happy to be me.
I'm happy to be me.
I'd like to say I made this, but I didn't
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If we could eliminate disabilities from the population, should we?
