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In reply to the discussion: Mother wins right to end disabled daughter's life [View all]Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)I have always said that my parents should have been prohibited by law from reproducing. My father had a personal and family history of mental illness and substance abuse. My mother's side of the family has long had untreated bouts of mood swings, depression, and other erratic behavior. I have an aunt who is an obsessive hoarder with paranoid tendencies and an uncle who committed suicide when he jumped out the window of a mental hospital.
A genetic powder keg like my family should not have been allowed to create more copies of themselves. Yet they did, and here I am. Unemployable piece of shit, with zero real-world, 21st-century job skills, mood swings and anxiety issues of my own, and a deep-seated distrust and hatred of other people. I will end up a useless bottom-feeder serving up coffee or washing toilets for pennies on the dollar, and all because these people were not sterilized by law. If you knew me in real life, you might reconsider your stance on Buck v. Bell. Or you might be an incurable optimist who believes that everyone is "special," even those who bring nothing to the table and contribute zilch to society. People who rue the day they were born and feel guilty for the inevitable, involuntary, and unearned "support" from taxpayers to keep them alive even though they don't really do much else but eat, sleep, and shit because no one will hire them and pay them enough salary to be contributing and productive citizens. People who would give anything to undo the mistake of their birth because they suck horribly at life.
In other words, people like me.
Ich bin lebensunwertens leben.