@clevercorvidae_ The hypothetical knowledge required to complete the conditional "I will abort if x disability" is also seen as unproblematic in a way that says something about people here.
Are the disabled baby testing kits presumed innocent?
This is the same imaginary view of fetuses-as-children that natalists have, except in the negative. Fetuses become imagined people when they're considered abortably disabled.
Abortion becomes eugenics when you fantasize about an abnormal child suffering.
I hate that people cannot understand that you can hold the (pro choice) opinion of:
- disabled people are people and deserve dignity and respect and a good life
AND
- I donโt want to create a child who is guaranteed to suffer if I can help it
I'm as pro-abortion as they come, but getting an abortion specifically because you'd end up with a child with down syndrome is some eugenicist nonsense
@crypsis000 Even the title can't help but make one think of Deleuze's consistent scorn for the primacy of the "what is" problematic. Like it's so on the nose it feels like we're missing something.
@EmoFoucault Like what are those of us who have fatigue, breathing problems, heart conditions, etc supposed to make about big warnings that contracting something we effectively already have will ruin our lives?
@EmoFoucault This rings true of disability discourse generally, but especially my frustrations with Long Covid discourse.
Abject fear of losses incurred from becoming disabled dominate the discourse, treating ppl with LC as already dead and ppl with those symptoms as but no LC even worse.
@marcwithpliers@7girls1car I don't think it can be called neglect.
They spent a large portion of time on his character and then rewrote it largely due to player feedback. You can't just develop forever, especially with the speculative nature of the gaming industryโyou have to pay back loans eventually.
@7girls1car I agree in general but I would actually like numbers on him not being recruited.
I have trouble seeing the average player experience him die in the grove battle or miss the multiple instances where he's recruitable. Imo he's the best in Act 1 and broken everywhere else.
@PotatoMcWhiskey Prison reform is a discourse which reproduces the necessity of the prison system over and over again, so yes, this is "as prison reform as it gets" right here.