Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:37:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: M-TH: (Fwd) personhood & marx



Here I will defer to Malecki's (for once) genuine expertise. I don't know
anything about the autistic and severely retarded. I did, however, put the
point hypothetically. Suppose they were as cut off from society as I
erroneously supposed them to be. Still it would be wrong to kill them.

A different hypo. Feral children sometimes survive in the wild, having
been raised by animals or somehow on their own, apart from human society.
Truffaut has a movie, The Wild Child, about one such fak,ous case. A feral
child isn't part of society, but hasa  right to life.

--jks 

On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Robert Malecki wrote:

> Justin writes!
> >
> >I don't think we should take the James-Sheila position that only beings
> >with social existence have rights, though. Autistic children and very
> >retarded persons may not have a social existence, but it surely would be
> >wrong to kill them just because they are a bother.
> 
> Not true Justin. I work with these kinds of kids and adults. They are very 
> real, have a social extistence, and all the rest. A commmunist society will 
> give them according to their needs and they will take part in society 
> according to their abilities. 
> 
> Here in sweden thet have come a long way in providing homes, jobs and 
> personal assistants to these people and working for the full integration 
> into society of these people..
> 
> Warm regards
> Bob Malecki
> 
> 
> 
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