Facebook bans mother for posting photos of baby with birth defect

• Monsieur wrote on 2012-05-26 19:11

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;870156:

  The only thing I feel when seeing that pic is sympathy. It would have never crossed my mind to find it disgusting. Disturbing of course, but rather because of the baby's fate.
  
  I think it takes a certain lack of empathy to wound the mother's heart by removing the pictures because some selfish sissies only concerned about their blissfulness can't simply look away. I would've waved the requests off.

  
  
  this, so much this.
  that baby is no less a person because of a defect. so, what, if you see an deformed person on the streets are you going to tell them to stop being deformed or to stop going out in public because their appearance offends someone?? then again, it's whatever. not everyone can look past appearances, i guess. it's one thing to put an active effort into looking good or improving what you have, but it's another to be born with something you couldn't possibly change without extensive surgery. it's not the baby's fault, or even the mother's. so it, i guess, makes me upset to know that this is only the beginning of what will be a long, hard road for the child socially.
• Claudia wrote on 2012-05-27 01:54

  Quote from Monsieur;873443:

  this, so much this.
  that baby is no less a person because of a defect. so, what, if you see an deformed person on the streets are you going to tell them to stop being deformed or to stop going out in public because their appearance offends someone?? then again, it's whatever. not everyone can look past appearances, i guess. it's one thing to put an active effort into looking good or improving what you have, but it's another to be born with something you couldn't possibly change without extensive surgery. it's not the baby's fault, or even the mother's. so it, i guess, makes me upset to know that this is only the beginning of what will be a long, hard road for the child socially.

  
  
  The baby died.
  
  Which means you missed about 2/3rds of the point of the whole thread.
• Taycat wrote on 2012-05-27 05:20

  Quote from Monsieur;873443:

  this, so much this.
  that baby is no less a person because of a defect. so, what, if you see an deformed person on the streets are you going to tell them to stop being deformed or to stop going out in public because their appearance offends someone?? then again, it's whatever. not everyone can look past appearances, i guess. it's one thing to put an active effort into looking good or improving what you have, but it's another to be born with something you couldn't possibly change without extensive surgery. it's not the baby's fault, or even the mother's. so it, i guess, makes me upset to know that this is only the beginning of what will be a long, hard road for the child socially.

  
  
  Did you even read the article or the thread?
• Hypercombo wrote on 2012-05-30 15:21
  Couldn't even tell there was a problem with the baby at first glance.
  but yeah if there getting mad at someone for posting these, considering what else goes on in Facebook
  that's kinda depressing.
• Taycat wrote on 2012-05-30 15:59

  Quote from Hypercombo;876162:

  Couldn't even tell there was a problem with the baby at first glance.
  but yeah if there getting mad at someone for posting these, considering what else goes on in Facebook
  that's kinda depressing.

  
  
  Did you look at the link within the article of the pictures when the hat was removed?
• Claudia wrote on 2012-05-30 19:43

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki;876179:

  Did you look at the link within the article of the pictures when the hat was removed?

  
  
  People, reading the thread? Blasphemy.
  
  People would rather just post long-winded opinions that are absolutely irrelevant to the topic.
• Taycat wrote on 2012-05-30 21:29

  Quote from Claudia;876312:

  People, reading the thread? Blasphemy.
  
  People would rather just post long-winded opinions that are absolutely irrelevant to the topic.

  
  
  Agreed :/