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Why is this behavior accepted?
A woman in Atlanta knew she had a 50/50 chance of passing her own childhood eye cancer onto her offspring.
She gave birth to three children, anyway.
All three have eye cancer. One of them started chemotherapy at a week old.
Somehow, acts like this — this woman isn’t alone — haven’t managed to garner the seething “you’re selfish!” chant the way choosing not to have children, which by definition hurts no one, has.
“Oh, but that mom wasn’t selfish,” someone who’s incorrect might argue. “There was no guarantee her kids would get cancer.”
Okay.
What would you say if someone approached you and said, “Hi! I have a syringe in my pocket, and half of it is cancer juice, but the other half is a placebo, or something, so you could be totally fine. The thing is, it’s very important to me that I experience the joy of injecting you, so…can I? I swear you probably won’t get cancer.”
I know exactly what you would say.
You would say, “No. No, thank you.”
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And if that person then grabbed your arm and injected you, anyway, with the…
