Enmos
Valued Senior Member
Wow that sucks. But not deadly, and relatively easy to treat I would think.
Conjoined Twins: Fatal Error?
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Wow that sucks. But not deadly, and relatively easy to treat I would think.
Maybe if she was born centuries ago they would have revered her as a God.
The modern world treats her as a freak and tries to 'repair' her.
She'll spend the rest of her life now as a forgotten cripple trying to fit in with the 'norms'... instead she could have lived a glorious short life in bygone times.
Chalk up another victory to the faceless industrial machine.
Enmos
Valued Senior Member
If left untreated it would lead to early death.
Longevity over quality?
I'll take the quality every time.
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
spidergoat
Valued Senior Member
You would think a goddess would be more shapely. The girl looks like a crab or something.
Enmos
Valued Senior Member
How would she have quality to her life ? I mean, she has to find a way to crap right ?
I'm gonna chalk it up as a victory of devoted parents and selfless doctors.
Why would you say that? On what do you base that statement?
As far as I'm aware, centuries ago, they'd have killed her outright as a freak of nature. It's only in modern times, and modern societies, that seek to "force" such a "thing" to live on and have a miserable fuckin' life.
Baron Max
LOL.
I based my assumption on the possibility that the birth of such children could have been the source of the multi-limbed Hindu God myth. :shrug:
Enmos
Valued Senior Member
Yeah, but wouldn't she crap all over herself ?
Besides, she would need help doing all sorts of things, including going to the toilet. She can walk like that either, she'd have to crawl her whole life.
Not much quality there man :shrug:
She will have a reasonable normal life now if no complications occur.
Yes, as a matter of fact. Have you not witnessed the stares, the uncomfortableness of people when they're around "handicapped" people? How would you like to be one of "those" people? ...and have others stare at you, and try to turn away to keep from looking at you?
Yeah, I've had that experience, and my guess is that you and others have, too. ...whether you admit it or not. Lying about something like that is easy, ain't it? Telling the harsh truth is sorta' not ....ahh, politically correct and you might be ostracized for it, huh?
Baron Max
At the cost of the operation, how many perfectly normal children could be saved from death by starvation or simply-cured diseases? Is that one malformed kid, who'll grow up still malformed, worth the lives of the other perfectly normal kids who could use that money to live?
Baron Max
Enmos
Valued Senior Member
How many normal children could be saved from death by starvation if you would off yourself today ?
Probably none. It doesn't cost anyone anything for me to shoot myself. But the operations and the ongoing costs of keeping that one malformed kid alive is going to cost many millions of dollars ....money that could be used to help thousands of perfectly normal kids who are starving to death.
Is that one kid worth the lives of all those other thousands?
Baron Max
What does any of that have to do with the vast $$$ being spent on the malformed kid of the OP?
Baron Max
Bells
Staff member
My, aren't you a shining example of how humanity has crapped itself.
"That thing" happens to be a child Baron. And she happened to be born with a parasitic twin. Thankfully they were able to successfully remove it. Thankfully she was not born with you as a parent. I could just imagine you stalking out of the house to the barn and a bucket of water, with her in a pillowcase.
You don't care about all the starving children.
This has not cost you anything. The medical staff and the hospital donated their time free of charge to operate on this child. Why do you care what the cost is? Your argument in this reeks of desperation and would qualify as strawman.
I would consider such people who stare and turn away in disgust as being uneducated boors who have no ounce of empathy or understanding.
She looks like a happy and carefree child to me, regardless of those the likes of you might think of her.
So what do you propose? Would you kill her at birth because she is not "normal" to look at? What is normal anyway? How do you define what is normal Baron? Would you kill that child because she makes you uncomfortable? That's what it comes down to in the end, isn't it? You prefer to kill people born with deformities because they make you uncomfortable.
You see.... this is the only thing I like about you, Baron Max. You are very genuine. You say what is in your mind even if it is completely unnaceptable in our society.
You're still a jerk, though.
