Kids with Down Syndrome have a reduced cognitive ability, but an enhanced ability to demonstrate love. Removing them from the world is not only wrong, but foolish.
Every single 'controversial' topic comes with an unspoken invisible "at current rate" percent sign/sliding scale, for any side of any debate about society.
(political/ social/ demographic/ financial/ health )
I believe lots of obnoxious contrarian things very strongly and yet I'm honest with myself that at some fuzzy unknown hypothetical percentage, my opinion would have to flip because the entire structure of society would transform, warp, and eventually collapse.
People should stop with trolley problems and start asking about the invisible number next to every prescriptive societal claim they hold.
Most people are not that honest with themselves EVEN for the categories they themselves are in.
So, downs syndrome:
Somewhere between 0% percent, iceland, all the way to 100% of all new children born are born with downs and kept... (lets say some virus or enemy action or monsanto in the water etc) ,
move the slider along one percent at a time in your mind...
What percent leading to implosion of entire US society/alternate 'children of men' disaster that upends everything demographically, every institution and economic reality that holds the country together?
All women are doomed to give up every dream they had, be it of working or of a healthy family, they are now nanny-slaves to special needs children, who will reshape family dynamics.
Half the healthy men have to break their back to keep current society infrastructure, military crawling along while the other half must rebuild all society around the new demographic burden.
Every healthy non-downs sibling becomes neglected and bitter as the special ones suck up all oxygen and finances.
All the aging adult population must now compete for healthcare with the new generation of special needs. Maybe some take one for the team, suicides to pass along resources.
The life of every useful american adult needs to now be rerouted to a future of corralling these "good hearted" but unstable giant toddlers in adult bodies, with adult strengths and "impulses" and food and resource needs.
Ethnic resentments ramp up as some group values shift at different rates, being resource drains or having an edge on others.
At what percent (10%???) would foreign powers smell blood in the water and begin planning invasion to get first dibs at the doomed superpower?
(the effect of the small covid numbers (0.1%??? ) was sobering and has reshaped everything I think about how people and societies work, and I'm grateful for that lesson)
So, yeah, what's the highest percentage of total new births of these happy loveable people that you personally would still hold your current opinion about?