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My concern about people deciding for the whole who should die and who should live...is the de-humanization of people that are different.

Hitler did the same thing that Mr. Singer is suggesting, he started killing disabled infants then moved up to anyone with a disability, then he moved on to the Jewish people, dehumanizing as he went.

My concern also is, do we have a group of people that have decided that they are God, in that they know we are going to have a lot of disabled children coming into this world because of toxins etc. that are already here, whether it be in the form of antibiotics that destroy the Dopamine pool in the brain... ergo causing the ADHD, ODD and EBD children we now are educating.

So to justify killing and institutionalizing people, they are using their own fear and statistics?

: -- Bonnie Jean Smith, Advocate, Pacer Center (posted 3/10, 11 a.m., E.S.T.)

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