Down the 'imperfection' is a human value Danilo Quinto, 08/03/2011, by http://www.labussolaquotidiana.it
'It's a shame. A scandal. Unthinkable in our society. " It is said that when they do - increasingly - episodes of intolerance towards children down or when, as happened recently, a group, it seems more than eight hundred members, organized a website called "mock the children with Down syndrome ". In the text of the presentation, phrases like "How to get rid of these creatures in a civilized manner? Yes gentlemen ... I found the solution: it is to use these creatures as targets, mobile or fixed, in the shooting range to the target. An easy and fun way to get rid of these foul creatures.
we really be surprised that these things happen? "We are really sure that things like this, instead of being advertised and labeled as unacceptable, unworthy, uncivilized, incredible - and so on and so forth - represent only the signs of anthropological in which we live? What shocked us, then? of episodes from the penal code or as we all - the human race, in its complex - has changed, dominated com’è da quel relativismo etico, che impedisce di distinguere il bene dal male? Siamo davvero così schizofrenici, che non riusciamo a guardare, con gli occhi della ragione, la realtà che abbiamo dinnanzi?
Due anni fa, in Gran Bretagna, due genitori, entrambi medici, decisero di dare alla loro bambina, affetta da sindrome down, un nuovo volto, sottoponendola ad una serie di interventi di blefaroplastica. Spiegò la madre: “E’ mia figlia a doversi adattare alla società, non il contrario”. Il bisogno – meglio, il desiderio - espresso era chiaro: rendere “normale” la loro bambina e renderle possibile una social life.
This is the level at which we are reduced, this is the logic - brutal, barbaric - our so-called civilization. This is the real outrage that should shake us all. Think about the consequences of this way of thinking, because you're in the world have a social function, decreed that the models that exist and require your utility company with which you also like to be accepted, to be respected , to have your dignity. Otherwise you are considered a burden. You can be set aside and despised, perhaps selected in advance and thrown away. Science - or a part - and this tends to help remedy what God has created in God's place or, in some cases. Think of what happens with the abuse of the instrument of prenatal diagnosis, for example.
In October 2009, the British Medical Journal published an article in which he documented how over twenty years in England and Wales had decreased slightly (less than 1%) of births of children with Down syndrome, while increasing maternal age did it provide a significant increase (more than 48%). "The number of diagnoses of Down syndrome has increased by 71% (from 1075 in 1989/90 to 1843 in 2007/2008) - to support research - while live births decreased 1 percent (from 755 to 743), as a result of prenatal screening and subsequent abortion. In the absence of prenatal screening and subsequent abortions, the number of births of people with Down syndrome would have grown by 48 percent because of the choice of parents to family later. " Similar surveys conducted in many countries, including Italy, have shown that prenatal diagnosis has become an instrument complies with a mentality - mistakenly held to be consistent with the demands of "therapeutic" - which accepts life only under certain conditions and rejects the limitation, handicap, infirmity ", as claimed by John Paul II in 'Evangelium Vitae."
In Europe, children with Down syndrome is estimated at 300 thousand. Currently, in Italy one child in 1,200 is born with this condition: about 38,000 people, of which 61% are over 25 years. A small minority imperfect now. What perhaps bothers us or scares us, accustomed as we are to admire and cheer only what our eyes is beautiful and perfect and not to include more - up to want to suppress "ab initio" - the importance of imperfection, which is part of human nature. This is eugenics of the third millennium, not much different, purposes and objectives, that which was born in the United States before the Second World War by the Nazi or that Sweden's social democratic.
When we organize ourselves to ensure that children to be born, must be subject to the acceptance of preventive screening, must be certified in some way, as the goods you sell, stamped, such as meat , whether or not we operate within a horizon that accepts only what is "perfect"? The refusal of the event, diversity is not, perhaps, first refusal of life - like this we have been given - and other stubborn search for perfection, and then eugenics?
The ridge that our modernity seems to have chosen can only be overcome by restoring dignity to the mystery of life.
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