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Entry tags:	cf_hardcore

Argh, I hate these freetards that give the rest of us a bad name.

Today's lovely post comes from one the_ladytramp in cf_hardcore. She believes that because a children's hospital is asking for donations and using children in their commercials, that society is saying that only children's cancers matter and the rest of us can go to hell.

The link: Oh noes, won't someone think of the freeeeeeeeeetards??!!11!</>

only children matter. ever.

sorry to make two posts in one day, but i just HAD to get this out because stuff like this makes me so very, very angry.

earlier this evening, i was watching telly and on came this advert for "st. jude's childrens hospital" for childhood cancer. they showed all of those horribly depressing pictures of kids that should be playing around in the dirt at school but are instead hooked up to IVs the size of garden hoses and respirators with no hair from chemotherapy. admittedly, it's pretty depressing even though i hate kids. a few were shown talking to the camera talking about what kind of cancer they had, moms were crying, piano music was playing in the background as the saints of the hospital (i.e. the nurses) helped the kids. all of that sort of thing to tug at the heartstrings. and then they had a few doctors and parents endorsing donations to their hospital, saying things like, "we need to beat childhood cancer" and "these children need your help" and "we need your contribution to end this tragedy of children being so ill" and "children have hope because of your donations!" and other things like that.

that's all fine and dandy, but this thought popped into my head:

kids aren't the only ones who get cancer.

yes, it's sad when people, any people, get cancer. but if we want to beat cancer, we should aim to beat ALL cancers--not just childhood cancers. cancer doesn't discriminate, why should a cure? and aren't there more cancers you can get as an adult than as a child? children don't get breast, testicular, colon, lung, or pancreatic cancer so much, do they?

but of course the children matter far more than the adults and elderly who die every day from cancer. who gives a flying fuck about my grandfather who died two years ago from pancreatic cancer, less than six months after he found out he had it? why on earth would anybody give a damn about my best friends' father who died from leukemia six months after that? and why should we bother trying to find a cure for my other friends' mom, who will soon be starting chemo for breast cancer? these people don't matter because they're not kids!

honestly, it makes me angrier than it should.

thoughts?

Luckily everyone's pretty much flaming her cuz it's so fucking ridiculous. Enjoy!