hm. i wouldn't say that to anyone but a very close friend of whom i know that zie understands how i mean it. but i have thought that when meeting some people, especially when they were very seriously mentally disturbed. i am not, however, saying that their life isn't worth living for them. i am not inside their heads -- i don't know how they feel about it. i am saying that i, personally, would not want to live that way. that i, if i could, would kill myself rather than live that way. which says something about my weaknesses and my fears.

and which is a very far cry from saying "kill yourself, you worthless slug".

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as to having children if one has genetic defects -- i care vastly more about people's parenting abilities and them having children for what i consider "good" reasons than i care about their genes.