Swollen Goat said:
SimuLord said:
Swollen Goat said:
Sorry, but here's another way to look at my point- Should the mentally handicapped be allowed to drive? Why not? They're human, they have rights.
Driving a motor vehicle is not a fundamental human right. Life, liberty, and the right to pursue the basic human drives that make our species what it is?
And if "they're a drain on resources", then maybe that's an argument against socialism, since it seems like "for the public good" sure does justify a whole lot of government intervention in people's lives, which is inherently totalitarian in nature and inimical to freedom and democracy.
How about the kids, Sim? Fuck their future, right? And this is no such thing as 'fundamental human rights'. It's a lovely idea, but seldom does it come into practice. You see this as only suppressing the handicapped-why does noone give a shit about the kids?
So subhuman people create subhuman children and need to be stopped, is that it? Because someone is subhuman they have no right to be created? And because subhumans aren't capable of love and nurturing; only "acceptable" people are?
I don't think so. Human beings have human rights. And "won't someone please think of the children?" has been used to justify a whole lot of fascism (more than a little bit of it directed at video games, fascism which folks on this site rightly rail against). Those children are valuable to someone. Maybe not to you, since you don't think they're even human, but to someone---and certainly to their parents.
Unless you seriously want to contend that the mentally handicapped aren't human, and furthermore unless the UN Declaration of Human Rights means absolutely nothing to you, then your argument just doesn't work.