• mindlight@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Did you just try to angle my comment to be about people with disabilities being less capable and/or of less value?

    What I countered was a claim where the first part stated that everyone has a life, which is just not true. For the second part of the claim to have any value in the sentence, the first part has to be true. Which it wasn’t.

    Whether I read it wrong or not doesn’t change the fact that I never limited my statement to be about people with disabilities or disabilities automatically taking the life away from people.

    So I stand by my claim, that not everyone of the 8 billion living in this planet has a life and people that care about them.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      You were responding to a comment about quadriplegics which painted context to your response. If that’s not what you meant, then gine. Im sorry i misunderstood your response. You could have been more clear that you were generalising and not directly responding to the claim being made.

      To your point. No not everyone has a life and people that love them but i would argue that a blanket statement that started this thread, that if you were a quadriplegic then you would volunteer to have experimental surgery with unknown side effects and effectiveness because you have nothing else going for you is not inherently true.

      You dont need to be quadriplegic to want to volunteer. You dont have to not have anything else going for you, and you dont need to have a life or people that love you.

      If all you are saying is not everyone has a life or people that live them, then i fail to see how its relevant to the point made in this thread.