it's a new problem. the reason to kill a kid like this in the ancient world was because life was hard enough as it was and they just didn't have the extra energy, time or technology to keep those people alive. if you couldn't eventually make yourself of use to someone, you were going to get killed as an infant to save everyone else's lives. it was very necessary, keeping the useless alive just put everyone else at risk. in the modern day, we do finally have the ability to keep people alive almost no matter what. even permanently comatose and not breathing on your own, we can hook you up to artificial lungs and pump food direct into your veins and do all kinds of shit to keep your heart pumping. so there's no longer any necessity, but there doesn't seem to be a point either. if your kid becomes a vegetable and you keep them alive for years and years without any response and no expectation of one, you're just ruining your own life for no reason. but you have to be burdened with the choice to terminate, because it is indeed a choice.
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