[Keydog]

I went to primary school with a kid named Nigel who was a thalidomide baby, pretty much a normal kid despite having no arms and no legs, he was born in New Zealand in 1978, don't know what made the drug companies want to test it on us, apparently they didn't understand the different effects of the stereoisomers of the drug on the human body and needed some guinea pigs, wonder how many other fun chemicals they have been testing out on us

[CuriousOne]

Originally Posted by bombed ↗

I don't understand why people are taking it so deeply when it is a child and everyone is laughing at dead older people. Honestly, no difference...its all human beings.
Plus, everyone seems to laugh more at POOR older dead people..thinking pause..oh ya we do, now you feel bad eh?
so haha its a kid, get over it

The reason why it's so much harder to see children suffer, I believe, is they are perceived as the 'innocents' of this world. Many grown people have had the chance to live, make dumb choices, etc. Children don't get to. And when they deal with deformities and disabilities, they lose a chance at a "normal" life.

You make a point that everyone is human and it should be the same reaction but it's not. For me personally, elderly people and small children get to me and it affects me that much more. There is a reason why we ask for child warnings in the titles of these threads. Most of the time, it's a lot harder to see children suffering. That's just the way it is.

[DiamondSmiles]

So sad! That one infant smiling breaks my heart, but, she only knows what she was born with.

[Spiffyfable]

No amount of money could make a life like that worth while

[Keydog]

Originally Posted by Spiffyfable ↗

No amount of money could make a life like that worth while

I disagree
life is beautiful and cheap
god can be just as mean to you
as it can to me

[Chupachub]

It's sad when kids suffer for things out of their hands D:

[LERK]

[King Herald]

I was born in 1960 and this shit happened not long after. Being kids, we used to walk around with our arms tucked inside our sweaters, with just the hand poking out the arm hole, pretending we were 'Flid Kids'.

It seemed funny at the time.

[elizajane]

Oh my....