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Originally Posted by denphone
Oh what glorious generalising stereotyping....
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Over the years I've met people like this. Then, when they or a close person ends up being sick or disabled, it's suddenly different.
They are "entitled to the help" because "they have paid into the system" and "are genuinely ill" (usually said in a tone of voice that suggests that nobody else has or is).
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Originally Posted by pip08456
You mean the ones you want sterilised so they can't reproduce?
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I do not and have never advocated that people should be routinely sterilised simply because of illness or disability.
Don't you ever say this again, you piece of work.
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
In the "Tomorrow File" (Lawrence Sanders) you had to have a procreation license before you were allowed to reproduce. Now there's an idea.  |
Agreed.
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Originally Posted by denphone
The devil will be in the detail Richard.
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Absolutely Den, there's nothing to stop them from chopping and changing what is deemed to be chronic, using this as a sweetener to the WRAG £30 cut or abolishing the WRAG component altogether. On the other hand, perhaps a General Election is around the corner
