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Dawkins: "immoral to bring [Down's Syndrome baby] into the world"
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:10 am
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:10 am
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Atheist author Richard Dawkins provoked a firestorm Wednesday on Twitter by claiming an unborn baby with Down’s syndrome should be aborted and that it would be “immoral to bring it into the world.”
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Irish Catholic Aidan McCourt tweeted in return to Dawkins, “994 human beings with Down’s syndrome deliberately killed before birth in England and Wales in 2012. Is that civilised?”
“Yes, it is very civilised,” Dawkins responded. “These are foetuses, diagnosed before they have human feelings.”
Dawkins later added, “Learn to think in non-essentialist ways. The question is not ‘is it human’?’ but ‘can it suffer?’”
When InYourFaceNewYorker tweeted, “I honestly don’t know what I would do if I were pregnant with a kid with Down’s syndrome. Real ethical dilemma,” Dawkins returned, “Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice.”
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Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:12 am to TN Bhoy
Didn't a few lefties here a while back tell this to CFBRules after he posted a pic of his child with DS?
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:13 am to TN Bhoy
Holy shite. Immoral? This guy is a fricking loon.
and I don't have a problem with abortion
and I don't have a problem with abortion
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:14 am to TN Bhoy
I know plenty of DS parents and DS children. I wouldn't say their life has been a waste.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:14 am to TN Bhoy
I think we should abort Richard Dawkins.
If you've ever been around a Down's kid, you'd know that they often represent the best of humanity.
If you've ever been around a Down's kid, you'd know that they often represent the best of humanity.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:15 am to DelU249
Yea the immoral part is insane. But, I don't have a problem with someone choosing to abort.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:16 am to Jcorye1
Suffering is an idiotic point to make. There's ways to kill anybody without suffering. That doesn't make it suddenly okay
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:21 am to TN Bhoy
Wow. Dawkins is a true beacon of morality so we'd better listen up. 
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:21 am to TN Bhoy
I guess someone like him would have dumped Stephen Hawking in a trash can.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:23 am to TN Bhoy
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:23 am to DelU249
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Immoral? This guy is a fricking loon.
“If there is no God, everything is permissible.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov -
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:24 am to TN Bhoy
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The question is not ‘is it human’?’ but ‘can it suffer?
Do we decisively know the answer to the "can it suffer" question?
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:25 am to gatorrocks
Tim's Place - Another example you piece of shite Dawkins
This post was edited on 8/21/14 at 9:26 am
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:25 am to NikolaiJakov
quote:
If you've ever been around a Down's kid, you'd know that they often represent the best of humanity.
This!
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:26 am to Radiojones
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If you've ever been around a Down's kid, you'd know that they often represent the best of humanity.
DAMN RIGHT. Well said.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:27 am to ClydeFrog
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Do we decisively know the answer to the "can it suffer" question?
I want to know what is so magic about the door through which "fetuses" become "babies" that on one side they can't feel pain or suffer and on the other side they can.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:28 am to Lg
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“If there is no God, everything is permissible.”
Or if you follow the preachings of a warped murderous pedophile.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:29 am to TN Bhoy
It's not immoral, at all, to bring them into the world. But I really don't know what I'd do.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:32 am to mtntiger
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I guess someone like him would have dumped Stephen Hawking in a trash can.
Except that SH does not have DS and was totally normal at birth.
Not interested in defending RD, he can take care of himself. Many will have passionate beliefs on this topic and all are entitled to their opinions.
Just not sure how your comment relates to his comment.
Posted on 8/21/14 at 9:32 am to TN Bhoy
And this is the problem with trying to extrapolate scientific knowledge into a moral system.
I am not sure, for someone that believes in 'selfish genes' why there is any justification for not killing Down's syndrome kids after they are born.
Why not? No referencing God, or any kind of existential moral order in your answer.
I am not sure, for someone that believes in 'selfish genes' why there is any justification for not killing Down's syndrome kids after they are born.
Why not? No referencing God, or any kind of existential moral order in your answer.
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