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Originally posted by wolf
You've clearly not spent that much time around the severely retarded.
Wasn't it the head of PETA who said something along the lines of "If I was on a sinking ship and had the choice of saving a smart dog or a retarded baby, I'd save the dog?"
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Well, consider this thought: People who are for "assisted suicide" feel that they should have the right to kill themselves when their "quality of life" is below a given point, the point being one that they decide upon.
Consider people who are on life support. The same applies here. Peole make the decision
for them because they are unable to decide for themselves, if their "quality of life" is below a given point, where it is better to "let them die".
Given the above, is it reasonable to assume that there is a point at which the "quality of life" for a, as you put it, "retarded person" would be better off left to die?
You have to weigh the severity of the situation. That's what they all do I suppose. I imagine everyone has a point some where that if the QOL is "too low", they would be compelled to think that "Being-X" is better off dead.
Before you say it's not true, let me prove it to you. Every day you decide which has more value: You going hungry, or you killing something, directly or indirectly to eat, assuming you aren't a strict vegan or fruitatarian. Thus, you have made a decision that Being-X is better off dead than alive.
Taken with the above context, is it inconceivable that such a situation would arise, that you'd save a dog over a "retarded person"?
No? How about your favourite dog over a near vegitable state "retarded person" who is a total stranger?
After all, some people say their pets are like children.
Oh, I guess I'm obliged to comment on the PETA picture above for some bizarre reason. Here you go: Wow. Impressive. It amuses me to no end to watch all the "meat eaters" go to extremes to "prove" that they have some right to eat whatever they feel like, or that they're vastly superior to all other life forms. Somehow this picture fails to prove the latter, and for the former, I could care less.
Quzah.