Thread 17969830

Should parents of mentally retarded children be forced to take care of their kids? How common is this moral obligation across history? Is it unique to our time and culture?

OP using /his/ to trauma dump lmao

Infanticide was very common in various cultures. More so in foraging societies but common enough closer to heart, like ancient Rome, early modern Japan or even just-Christianized Iceland.

Romans actually found Egyptians weird for saving all children, even pulling them from the refuse piles their parents left them in to die (the Roman equivalent of dumpster babies).

Northern Europeans preferred to think of "off" children as swapped by faeries/elves/trolls, changelings, so they could dump them without owning up to abandoning their own kin to die.

>>17969830 (OP)
With the prenatal test for down syndrome there's really no excuse for mothers not to abort them now

Mentally ill child=mentally ill adult
severity is the only change

>>17969936
Japs recently found out how to delete the downie gene entirely. So now religionfags can't even cry about abortion as an emotional argument.

>>17969936
if only we could get israel to tell republicans not to ban abortion

Society has always had a responsibility to support families.

>>17969830 (OP)
they should force them to take care of you, who are much, much more retarded than they are.

>>17969936
keep in mind this is standard practice in Iceland, which curiously is the most feminist country in the world. take that as you will.

>>17969830 (OP)
>eugenics
it works for plants and animals
people are next

>>17969830 (OP)
throughout most of history retarded children were left to die in the woods.

>>17971257
>should states be allowed to condition their parentage upon the traits of their child?

I can’t see why not, but they should be limited to traits that really matter, like intelligence, height, muscle mass etc. other aesthetic traits like a more beautiful face or blue eyes should be banned because it’s not only useless but also makes a world where everyone looks the same. A shallow society is the byproduct where the only thing that matters is looks.

>>17971355
people can be bred for occupations
brains - engineers doctors
muscles - worker bees
huge assholes - politicians