I Really Don't Get People Sometimes

[kriadydragon]

Okay, so, apparently there's this ideology that's been going around which involves the belief that it should be okay for a woman to have an after-birth abortion. With the cut-off age being at five years old. The belief being that since children within this age-range can't take care of themselves, then they aren't really human.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! o.O

How the crap do people who think this way even exist? I mean, I'd like to think society as a whole smart enough not to let this be anything more than a bunch idiots being a bunch of idiots. But, still, that people even think this way... that they try to justify it...

I normally try my best not to be judgemental of people, but the people who think a child isn't a human being and therefore it's okay to "abort" them is a disgusting monster.

(ETA: To clarify, this isn't an actual thing that people or the governement  are trying to push. It came about during a discussion on abortion on college campuses, in which some students and professors expressed that they didn't see anything wrong with aborting a child after it was born.)

Comments

[imbecamiel.livejournal.com]

I know. I... just... I couldn't even believe that someone would even dare to suggest the idea the first time I heard that this was an actual thing people advocated. But at that point I figured, okay, this is horrifying but there's no way it goes beyond one or two fringe nutjobs and surely the rest of society will react strongly enough that it'll never become something average people can discuss as if the idea might be remotely normal to consider, never mind morally acceptable to actually carry out.

And yet. I continue to be stunned by just how far society can go in pushing the bounds of justifying insane and horrifying things.

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

And yet. I continue to be stunned by just how far society can go in pushing the bounds of justifying insane and horrifying things.

Humanity is frighteningly good at rationalization and justification. It boggles my mind the things I see people trying to push as acceptable. It's also really scary because many of the worst atrocities in history often started out as nothing more than "talk."