The Klartext Landfill for Absurd, Ignorant, and Deplorable Posts VI

[DC Al Fine]

In the 'Bigoted' category

representatives of religious organisations have no business in an hospital.

[DC Al Fine]

Scalia was every bit as bad and as evil as Fidel Castro was.

[DC Al Fine]

Scalia was every bit as bad and as evil as Fidel Castro was.

mmh. scalia was substantially more evil than castro

I was unaware that Scalia has had people killed.

not directly, sure

Scalia is against gay marriage

Left: "Nazi bigot"

Castro puts gays in camps

Left: "Free healthcare though..."

[DC Al Fine]

Scalia was every bit as bad and as evil as Fidel Castro was.

mmh. scalia was substantially more evil than castro

I was unaware that Scalia has had people killed.

not directly, sure

Scalia is against gay marriage

Left: "Nazi bigot"

Castro puts gays in camps

Left: "Free healthcare though..."

Through his votes on the bench, Scalia did exercise a tremendous amount of influence. His rulings on such issues as due process, death penalty, civil rights and social programs helped ruin the lives of thousands of people in the United States.

But of course it was just a "diffrent judicial philosophy" for you guys. Nice guy, FF

It's not even a question of good or bad though. It's this farce of equivocating a judge or a legislator to a bloody dictator that is so annoying! It's patently absurd to try this "just as evil" nonsense outside of a very select group of dictators, generals etc.

[DC Al Fine]

The mentally disabled should not be killed. They are humans. At the same time, they are absolutely a burden to society and anyone who says they are a blessing is clearly just trying to make themselves feel better about the horrible situation they are in. To minimize their burden to society, the government should run care homes where these people can be taken care of. If people want to take care of their own mentally retarded relatives by themselves, they should of course be allowed but if there are quality care homes, very few will choose that option. Also, as soon as a mental disability is diagnosed, a fetus should be aborted. This should not be mandated by law, just encouraged by society. People whose families have a history of mental retardation should also be discouraged from having children, again, not by the law, just by society. Eugenics is fine as long as it's not racial.

*sigh*

Of all the changes in our culture, that is the one that upsets me the most.

[DC Al Fine]

But a consciousness doesn't exist in either. One common argument against abortion I see is "how would you feel if you were aborted. But I didn't exist as a person until around the time my body left the womb. So aborting the fetus that became me would have been preventing me from coming into existence in the first place, not killing me. Having contraceptives at the moment of said fetus's conception or not having done it in the first place would have had a basically identical effect on my consciousness.

A classic case of a does not follow b

[DC Al Fine]

This isn't necessarily "objectively bad" but I'm putting it here to register extreme displeasure both with the attitudes involved and in the fact that this is what the author came back for.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Here is a 'holiday special' post (because this issue matters a great deal to me and I can't not respond to it)


People who are severely mentally or physically disabled are a burden. A huge burden. As are the elderly and most children for that matter (I'll leave that there for reasons that should be obvious) A massive part of my old job was acting in a medical-legal capacity with children who were severely disabled. I have first hand experience of the family difficulties and the support difficulties surrounding this. I have allocated funding, medical treatment, respite care and long term residential care. I've communicated with those who can communicate. I've appointed legal advocates for them. I have went to court for them.

It's taxing and ludicrously expensive. You can love someone to the point you'd do anything for them, but they are still a burden. Saying someone is a 'burden' or a 'strain' says nothing and implies nothing with respect to how you actually view that person. Pretending otherwise, or feigning obliviousness is in fact, a backhanded insult. If you couch a 'burden' in neutral 'loving' terms, that leads to people not taking your requirements and your needs for help and assistance seriously. Because 'didn't you say they weren't a burden?' We're already seeing this (in the UK at least) when it comes to residential provision. I'm sorry Nathan, but saying that caring for someone who can't care for themselves is a 'privilege and honor' is nothing but wank. It's not. It's a duty. It's a burden. And if you're doing it or thinking about it as some form of self reflection of penance then you'd last 5 minutes either caring for a loved one or for others in a voluntary or professional capacity.

That's point one. Point two, and on a different line of thought entirely, is that those who have an debilitating or inhibitive disability that is hereditary and that they would not wish upon their childrenas much they are able to deal with it in themselves, tend to be the most supportive of ways and means to mitigate this. Which pro-life fetishists tend not to have much time for because that involves both the act of termination and the use of embryology (founded as it is on the destructive study of embryos in the first instance, and the selective manner of implantation) as factors. The alternative is not having biological children; surrogacy or adoption. And while all of these are wonderful and noble things to do, it is a slap in the face to someone who can use these means in order to have their own biological children.

Nah, I'd say that's an objectively bad post. And I'm pro-choice.

I find the "I'm a social worker, so I know" attitude annoying. No, social workers and case workers don't know what families like mine have been through. In fact, the social worker (a particularly egregious woman) if anything delayed and hindered the process of getting my brother into a group home while the state was threatening to Baker Act him.

And then there is the rest of the post.

Never quite understood this logic. I've done tax returns for a lot of poor people. I don't pretend I understand what its like to be poor.