Tim Lillie

Retired College teacher, disability advocate, parent, gardener and food canner, disability bioethics sometimes commentator. Sometimes other things, too.

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@joncoopertweets So it's perfectly ok to vote for a sleazy politician if it's for your politician? At least that's a single standard.

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@UziCryptoo Sounds great. What makes it possible, besides tough immigration laws, for Denmark to afford all this? Hint: USA military power. Not that I like that much, but it's a fact.

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@EdKrassen What if they find out their child is going to be, say, deaf, or blind? Or disposed to autism? Or likely to have the wrong political views?

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@llamalaikum Well... that's a nice thought I suppose. When does it become infanticide. It's already eugenics, pretty much by definition.

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@NKY_Leftist You do agree that the fetus is a human being though, right? When, precisely, does a fetus become worthy of life in your view?

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@ericstait @_6signxxx Sure, sure.

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@ericstait @_6signxxx Ahhh...so you don't have any evidence for your argument. But so long as Google is mentioned: look up Arab slave trade.

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@ericstait @_6signxxx I see. Which "reparations" exactly di d Japanese receive? I know Bill Clinton issued an official apology for the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans. Is that going to resolve all issues then?

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@TrevMcKendrick Two things can be true. That deliberate killing of an unborn child, euphemised as "termination", is indeed eugenics of the first water, and that parents make choices. The issue should be how society creates "disability" that way.

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@sugabelly Yes, it's precisely eugenics if you consciously choose to terminate those deemed unfit. Trisomy 21 is not a health issue like illness from microbes or wer market bats or lab leaks or the plague...

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@Thiohna Now, just for fun, define what is a "disability". If the unborn child is likely going to be nearsighted, is that enough?

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@ericstait @_6signxxx What!! Everyone else received "reparations"? Everyone? Goodness: can you show me a few?

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@marceelias What if a state gerrymandered districts that intentionally discriminated against Republicans? Or Democrats? Or intentionally discriminated against, say, Asian-Americans?

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@Blacksword011 What would you prefer: an all black jury? You seem to be focused on skin color. That's one of continuing problems of our time, but why make it worse? Well... unless it's deliberate or unconscious race baiting?

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@prochoicenun How do you know this specific scenario? How would you fix it? Abortion? Killing the inconvenient and difficult? What, exactly?

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@ericstait @_6signxxx Oh, so only your ancestors count. Only your ancestors were ever maltreated, enslaved, exploited? Right.

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@colonelkurtz99 Why not?

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@GavinNewsom That's not what the ruling said. But remember the shoe may be on the other foot one day and you're creating profound mistrust in the law, based on race.

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@heyyitsjanea Yes, I suppose that might be the case. So you want juries to be based on skin color?

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@ericstait @_6signxxx Those injustices are shared by many others in the world. When do my white enslaved ancestors get paid and by whom. Exactly. Otherwise, you're risking reenactment of injustice to everyone except you. It's a very difficult question.