I can't go quite that far simply because, as the partner of someone with Crohn's, I have some idea of just how awful it can be and can't quite bring myself to wish that on anyone. (Both the Crohn's and the secondary arthritis it's brought on are manageable thanks to Remicade. We joke that the only long-term side effect is that now he loves cheese even more.)
But I definitely share your lack of patience. What particularly infuriates me is the demon-haunted-world attitude that because some disease or harmful condition exists, we somehow deserve to suffer from it. The bullshit "God sent AIDS as a punishment for homosexuality" argument. I want to shake these people and scream at them, "Why do you wear contact lenses? Why do you take aspirin when you have a headache? Then why isn't that a good enough reason for you to fund HIV research and stem cell research, you hypocritical pieces of shit?"
In my theology, it is our highest moral duty to alleviate the suffering of other creatures by applying every tool we have at hand, first and foremost of which is our faculties of reason -- but to explain this in detail would be rather lengthy and I do not like to come off as proselytising in other people's spaces, so I will demur for the moment. I should probably blog about it in my own journal, though.
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Date: 2009-Aug-13, Thursday 11:55 am (UTC)But I definitely share your lack of patience. What particularly infuriates me is the demon-haunted-world attitude that because some disease or harmful condition exists, we somehow deserve to suffer from it. The bullshit "God sent AIDS as a punishment for homosexuality" argument. I want to shake these people and scream at them, "Why do you wear contact lenses? Why do you take aspirin when you have a headache? Then why isn't that a good enough reason for you to fund HIV research and stem cell research, you hypocritical pieces of shit?"
In my theology, it is our highest moral duty to alleviate the suffering of other creatures by applying every tool we have at hand, first and foremost of which is our faculties of reason -- but to explain this in detail would be rather lengthy and I do not like to come off as proselytising in other people's spaces, so I will demur for the moment. I should probably blog about it in my own journal, though.