Wednesday, November 16, 2016


Okay so I found this video a little while back and I thought it was really interesting. This guy's YouTube channel addresses a lot of really interesting issues and the way he makes his videos are cool too. This particular video addressed labels. When I clicked on it I was ready for that kind of generic "it doesn't matter what other people think, don't let society put a label on you, society is evil" stuff but it wasn't overflowing with that kind of content (while there is some of that, I didn't think he overdid it and I think the points he put behind the claims were valid). I'm posting this in relation to NLMG because it reminded me of our conversation about which was more humane, telling the children their fate from an early age or exposing their future later. The video talks about how we label ourselves because that's what we're taught to do from an earlier age, and in class we talked about how donations were normalized and all the children were brought up to believe this was just the way it is. They were also told they were different from humans, and while this is true, there's no staggering factor of division between humans and clones. The labels they are given do not take away their humanity... they are not traditionally human, but just like everyone else, they have humanity. 

(on a side note, there's a video by him I almost did a post about talking about how "we're all put on this earth for a reason, we're all born with a gift" and he goes on to elaborate on how to strive to complete goals. I decided it didn't connect with the text enough, but if anyone wants to watch it, I'll put the link here.  it's really cool and definitely worth a watch)

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