If life was like a box of choclates..

It wouldn't last very long, considering a lot of people are obese. I wonder how many people have had that exact same thought? How many people wrote that down, or maybe used it in a stand-up? Oh well, I'll never know. Not until I can take my time-traveling phone booth to Heaven with the Grim Reaper and talk to the head honcho himself. I doubt many people would know what I was referencing to, but nevertheless, here I am again. Rambling, writing. Uninteresting thoughts.

I visited a place for developmentally disabled people today. It was horrible, the conditions I've seen there. Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Reyes Syndrome (which can be easily prevented if parents didn't give their children Aspirin, by the way) and many other chronic debilitating diseases. The condition these people were in, the deformities, it asked me a few moral questions. Would they be better off being put out of their misery? Are they even miserable? I doubt they know the different between good and evil, so I'm guessing that makes them innocent. Is it fair to kill an innocent human being because they're not, as what most would define, "normal"? What kind of life is it that they live?

Maybe one day science will advance far enough that we can cure these diseases, or maybe even just restore functionality through some weird cell transplant.

Now on the other hand, morals aside, humans are meant to procreate. We are meant to advance, further our species, to continue evolving. In society, people who are so severely disabled and handicapped, how do they contribute? Twisted thinking would lead me to believe, they do create jobs at least. Economy is ruined as is, it's a stimulus in a way.

They are human, and they are living breathing animals, just like the rest of us. They do have every right to live, and so do we all. In today's society they are taken care of, kept in the best possible condition they can be kept in. What about in the past, where medicine was nowhere near as advanced? They were left to fend for themselves, just like everyone else. Left to rot and die, just like everyone else.

Let's say, that if a deer was born deformed, would other deers take care of it? Obviously not, they don't have the cognitive ability to do such a thing, but logically speaking, why take care of it? Emotional attachment is the only thing that's coming up.

This is all really coming out poorly. Such a moral debate. Maybe this could be a good idea for Democrats and Republicans to argue about now?

The point I'm trying to get out of this whole thing is:

Well..
If that Cerebral Palsy patient, who is so severely debilitated, could step into a "normal" human beings shoes for just one minute.. And in that one minute, they got to stare
at the way they've been living for X amount of years.. Don't you think they'd choose to

kill themselves..?

If they had the cognitive ability to choose their own care for them, to realize they are indeed born with an abnormality.. Would they give up? Or would they accept their fates and "keep on keepin on"? (Joe Dirt is an inspiration)

Does it make me a weak person to say.. That if I was born with such a debilitating disease, and I could step out of my shoes for a moment, and live life how a "normal" person does.. I wouldn't want to return to the way I was before.. No, in fact, if I was in another body, I would personally shoot myself. (I mean, the body that was defected)

What if.. What if..

Food for thought:
What would you do?