N. Korea: Disabled newborns murdered
Posted in Stupid by Derek at 3:11 pm
This post was published 3 years 8 months 1 day ago and its content may not be valid anymore.N. Korean defector describes the practice of killing disabled newborns [via]:
North Korea has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born, a physician who defected from the communist state said on Wednesday.
Ri Kwang-chol, who fled to the South last year, told a forum of rights activists that the practice of killing newborns was widespread [...] babies born with physical disabilities were killed in infancy in hospitals or in homes and were quickly buried.
The thought alone enrages me. N. Korea is in its own little world.
I’m not trying to troll:
Does killing unborn children with disabilities (or even without disabilities) similarly enrage you? If not, what’s the difference?
there is no difference if the child has disabilities or not. the fact that the culture is essentially cleansing itself of deformities from walking the streets by murdering infants is infuriating.
I dunno, I don’t want to sound evil or piss anyone off, but I don’t find this TOO terrible. The children would have to go through life with a disability, people all around them would look down on them, thing less of them. And from an evolutionary standpoint, eventually if this keeps up, there eventually would be little or noone born with disabilities, right? Also, economically, it has to save the country tons of money.
Sorry Emory – your statement that “there eventually would be little or none born with disabilities, right?” is profoundly ignorant. First, all perfectly healthy people carry recessive genes. Most of these recessive traits are harmless – few can cause real problems in offspring. Match up with a mate with a matching recessive gene and you have a 50/50 chance expressing the recessive gene, like blue eyes or something like sickle cell disease. Second, gene mutations just spontaneously happen – all the time – its nature’s engine of evolution. Most don’t result in anything viable and are dead ends. A very few mutations survive and actually improve a creature’s ability to survive, like the first lizard to drop it’s tail when a bird grabbed it – the lizard survived to reproduce. Lizards with no-drop tails reproduced but not as sucessfully as drop-tails as they were eaten more frequently by birds than the no-drops. Eventually, with gazillions of generations the droptails were out numbered. Other viable mutations – read disabilities – may live but but their ability to successfully pass their genes on to a suceeding generation is usually extremely limited. Sometimes there are gene mutations caused by outside influences like toxins (natural and man-made), drugs, radiation with the same consequences as above.
The idea that killing a disabled child would reduce disabilities is just plain warped – there are WWII names for the sadistically ignorant people that thought that this was actually a good and right thing.
boohiss makes a very interesting point worth deep thought by many people – what’s the difference between killing a disabled infant just born and a perfectly viable infant yet to be born? It would be a very challenging intellectual exercise to put a lot of difference between the two.
This also happens in the West:
Half of infant deaths in Flanders were euthanasia
By David Rennie in Brussels
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
Nearly half the newborn babies who died in Flanders over a recent year-long period were helped to die by their doctors, a new study reported yesterday.
Paediatricians in the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium either discreetly stopped treating the babies or, in 17 cases, illegally killed them with lethal doses of painkillers.
The study, published in The Lancet, examined the deaths of every baby who died within a year of birth in Flanders between August 1999 and July 2000.
The results of a survey on the causes of death were stark: paediatricians who responded to the survey admitted they had taken “end of life” decisions in more than half the cases.
Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/09/weuth09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/09/ixportal.html