Tiny flowers are the best flowers

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Even if you just chuck them all in the bin for landfill, if it gets your space clean and gets you in a better mood, it’s worth it. Recycle when you can but don’t let your space become a mess just for the sake of recycling a few cans.

There’s one person on Mars in that film but in reality there’s zero people on Mars. That’s a really small margin of error

Isn’t that the one about a nice spiral shape?

A lot of people are saying depression (which is true) but I’d also like to throw in stress. I like reading and playing strategy games, but I’m sometimes so stressed that I can concentrate enough to do these things. It helps to have some easy, no brain hobbies as well to help get started with relaxation, so you’re able to enjoy your main hobby after you feel a bit better

Different programming languages for frontend and backend

That’s what it is. It’s gloves for feet (and regular socks are mittens for feet)

I was going to say burn it too.

My experience in the UK is similar. I’ve never had a good experience with a police officer, and I’ve been profiled for the clothes I wear, but I’ve also never been scared of a police officer (especially never scared for my life). I probably wouldn’t ask an officer for help, but I would also treat them like a person rather than a rabid dog who might just decide to shoot me

Give me an hour and I’m sure I could find a counter-example

Imprisonment would also deal with the “hating brown people” part.

You can have a pull cord in the bathroom or a switch outside, as I understand it

lemmynsfw. Nudity and dirty language everywhere. It’s no place for a good upstanding Christian to be

Yes! Also, I can take “real” photos and store them on an SD card and never see them again, or I can have all my photos in my pocket for whenever I want a reminder of the good times I’ve had, or I want to show a friend

A very thoughtful and considered response.

Thank you :)

I would disagree that only >18 year olds can give informed consent

No disagreement needed, because that’s not what I said. I specifically said “children” because like you, I think that 18 is an arbitrary age

I realise I didn’t explain why it’s bad for its own sake, as I was asked to… but seriously, murder is wrong whether it’s for eugenics reasons or just because you like killing. Do I have to explain that?

Eugenics doesn’t solely kill disabled people (who, by the way, were also targeted by Nazis), it’s about improving humanity by removing any humans who are undesirable. If you take that first step in removing undesirable disabled people, it’s an easy step to removing undesirable mentally ill people, queer people (because being gay or trans is often considered a mental illness), Jewish people, etc.

It sounds like I’m making a slippery slope argument, and I am to a certain extent. But there’s also a very famous poem about this - “First they came…”

Consent is not usually part of eugenics programs, and the original post was talking about killing children who definitionally can’t consent to such a big decision. This is why we don’t let children buy houses, surgically transition gender, or have sex with adults. And I did specifically mention that painless suicide is an option that I believe a truly free society should provide - for adults.

Yep, hence my comment about other countries doing it also.

That’s called “eugenics”, and fuck no. Historically speaking, the Nazis were a huge fan of eugenics and that was their defining bad trait. Governments cannot allow their citizens to murder freely just because they don’t think someone else’s life is worth living.

(I know a lot of countries dabbled in eugenics around that time, but they were also morally abhorrent to do so, and I’m not a historian to go into more detail)

Since we’re talking about “should”, rather than the world as it exists today, parents should consider if they can care for a disabled child before they get pregnant. The government or community should have a safety net in place for those children who can’t (or won’t) be cared for at home, and it should be easy to access and high quality. Finally, in my opinion, it should be possible for adults to opt out of life painlessly if they so choose, once they have had a chance to experience a full life and decide it isn’t for them.

I’m sorry that you’ve had such bad experiences, but allowing parents to kill their children legally is not the answer.