Why and when did mercy killing disabled babies fall out of fashion?
It didn't, women get abortions all the time.
>>1416005
Post birth.
>>1416003
When adoption, child services and abortion became things.
The 'got pregnant and kept it secret and so could leave the baby in the woods' would once again be common if those services went away.
>>1416027
The wiki article on infanticide seems to point to christianity as the reason for the decline, at least in later rome, but even then laws weren't often enforced.
In Europe, around the Renaissance.
>>1416044
I seem to remember something about a brothel in England where in the sewer next to it they found the remains of hundreds of male babies.
>>1416016
People in the past made no distinction between a child in the womb or out of the womb.
>>1416016
What is China
Action-T4 did nothing wrong at all.
>>1416068
I meant in the civilized world.
>>1416074
HAHAH EPIC MEME BRAH
>>1416102
>china
>civilised
>>1417683
Nice meme.
>>1416047
>TFW The pope had to pass infanticide laws, due to being absolutely horrified at the amount of dead babies in the Tiber of Rome
Feels bad man
>>1416003
when trade opened up increasing the price of slaves
>>1416003
Its really just virtue signaling.
Most people will abort a fetus if it tests positive for debilitating disabilities. Hard to post nataly abort without people noticing nowadays.
Also, the State applies its protections to more people nowadays
Too many people these days. In order to keep the peace governments must be increasingly intrusive and universally enforce laws like no killing, even if it's the killing of a disabled baby.
I don't really think it was that wrong, for a time and place with no adoption services, healthcare, and abortion.
It may become a real thing again, if society ever takes a rough turn and money dries up.
>>1416003
It was never in fashion. Either human beings killed infants for their gods with blood rituals or they left them to slowly die because they couldn't feed them. Very few people ever killed infants because they thought it would do the infants good.
>>1416068
irrelevant shithole
>>1416016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_Protocol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26181615
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_the_United_Kingdom#Child_euthanasia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Latimer#Support_for_Latimer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Haiselden
>>1419865
It was sure in fashion in Sparta.
>>1420168
well where'd they go?
>>1420168
Yes, but they didn't kill infants which were unfit in their eyes because they thought this would be in the child's best interest, but rather in the Spartan state's.
>>1420178
i thought you weren't allowed to use western websites, Liu. this is serious. i have to report this to the authorities.
>>1418510
A majority of Americans are medieval peasants so the point is moot.
>>1420191
>>1420168
I don't think we can quite separate (ancient) meme from reality when it comes to Sparta. But yea, I'm sure tossing retard babies is something they did without much of a second thought. I've read that 'elite' noble Spartans had to sneak out in the middle of the night (on the timeframe of some special festival period) and kill a member of the slave class in their hovels to truly become a warrior.
>>1420168
It wasn't killing out of mercy. It was eugenics out if interest for those they didn't kill.
>>1420654
You idiot, the question was whether they practiced mercy killing not whether killing infants kept them up at night.
>>1416003
>Why and when did mercy killing disabled babies fall out of fashion?
When infant mortality was so high there was essentially no point killing babies, because 2 out of 5 babies died 2 days after birth anyway?
Read about Semmelweiss.
