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Doctors Baffled, Intrigued By Girl Who Doesn't Age
phyrebyrd writes "Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler. She turned 16 in January. Brooke hasn't aged in the conventional sense. Dr. Richard Walker of the University of South Florida College of Medicine, in Tampa, says Brooke's body is not developing as a coordinated unit, but as independent parts that are out of sync. She has never been diagnosed with any known genetic syndrome or chromosomal abnormality that would help explain why. Brooke's hair and her nails are the only two things that grow, Howard said. 'She has pajamas and outfits that are 10 or 12 years old,' he said."
Anyway, the only reason you don't kill an infant is that he/she will grow up? If he doesn't develop, you should kill him?
No, but in this case, the child is being used as a human TOY for the parents. It is not a viable human in terms of what humans are normally for. It is its parents toy.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Nah - post-birth abortion. Euthenasia implies a "mercy killing" to end suffering. Brooke isn't suffering - there's "nobody home", really. An infant's brain, with no chance of growing, learning, etc. Even the family dog has more potential.
Even that I do agree with you, I don't think that's a reason for killing the girl at all.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
All I'll say to this is that I hope you learn a lesson in empathy someday.
A big, nasty, walloping lesson that leaves you permanently pissing into a bag through a tube from your hospital bed, you inconceivably arrogant, sociopathic prick.
Because you have taken it upon yourself, as the "enlightened" person you seem to think you are, that killing someone is a solution for inconvenience - someone who is not related to you, who is not part of your family, and who you have absolutely no dealing with other than a 2 minute long ABCNews video.
The decision is not yours to make, and presuming to tell people that you know what's best for them makes you an arrogant prick. Efficiency is great in engineering. It *sucks* as a ruling principle in interpersonal relationships.
From where you're sitting, quite arrogant, I'm sure. But what the hell, I've got karma to burn on calling out a self-important sociopath who seems to feel that "level of inconvenience" is the guiding principle for dealing with the sick, infirm, and handicapped.
I'll close with this bit of arrogance: the mods who marked me flamebait are monumental morons who are probably as socially stunted as you are, and view the rest of the world as a bunch of interchangeable parts that should be disposed of if they're not in perfect working order.