In 1915, Dr. Harry Haiselden convinced a patient, the mother of a disabled baby (the issue at hand was intestinal and was apparently fixable with surgery) to just let that baby die. Despite public outcry, he wasn’t arrested, and he didn’t even get his license revoked… at least until he made a movie about the whole affair, one which he actually starred in as himself in all but name. It was called The Black Stork and its pro-euthanasia message is actually shockingly shit.
Not just because of the values dissonance inherent in eugenics, but because the example he gives of Lebensunwertes Leben is a hunchback who gets made fun of (seriously, it looks like most of his problems could be mitigated if the people around him treated him nicely) eventually kills the doctor who saved his life as a baby. And, apparently, having a grandparent who had an affair with a servant puts you at genetic risk somehow.
Not just because of the values dissonance inherent in eugenics, but because the example he gives of Lebensunwertes Leben is a hunchback who gets made fun of (seriously, it looks like most of his problems could be mitigated if the people around him treated him nicely) eventually kills the doctor who saved his life as a baby. And, apparently, having a grandparent who had an affair with a servant puts you at genetic risk somehow.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
