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I would just like to point out that Mihai Sucan, a wonderful developer that worked on the Mozilla Developer Tools, passed away in April of this year due to the
by ovi256 11y ago
I would just like to point out that Mihai Sucan, a wonderful developer that worked on the Mozilla Developer Tools, passed away in April of this year due to the skin cancer this disease often leads to. I had the privilege of knowing him.
You can read his blog here:
http://mihai.sucan.ro/mihai/blog http://mihai.sucan.ro/mihai/blog
His twin brother is still fighting.
I am very glad to see that a great medical research center such as Stanford is doing work to heal this disease. If you want to make a donation this year, please consider them. Mihai also wrote about donating in his last blog post.
- ams6110 11y agoGood thing we didn't kill him in the womb or in the cradle then, as others on this page are advocating. His life was sadly short, but we are better for having had him.
- omegaworks 11y agoTHE WORST KIND OF SCUM FLAUNTS HIS POLITICAL AGENDA BY CO-OPTING ACTUAL HUMAN SUFFERING.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoThis viewpoint is a quick recipe for delegitimizing certain political agendas by fiat. I think we could stand to have less of that.
- pauleastlund 11y agoIsn't this what every major political figure in America does, constantly? I don't know where you live but here I feel like not a single school shooting, natural disaster, high-profile murder, outbreak of sickness, etc. goes by without major figures from one or both political parties trying to use it to somehow advance their agenda. It's a little scummy, but yours seems like a bit of an overreaction for a (sadly) extremely common practice.
- Crito 11y ago> "Isn't this what every major political figure in America does, constantly?" For the love of all that is good, DO NOT use politicians as your gauge for acceptable behavior or rhetoric. I mean seriously...
- pauleastlund 11y agoI get that it didn't come across well, but I wasn't saying "whatever Donald Trump does in a campaign speech is good enough for me," I was saying, "this seems to be a defining characteristic of our political discourse, I get finding it distasteful all-caps yelling about it seems like an over-reaction." I stand by that. Down-vote all you want.
- reagency 11y agoall-caps doesn't help.
- tomjen3 11y agoIf my political stand doesn't alleviate suffering, then it deserves to lose.
- doomrobo 11y agoTo maybe phrase the other comment's concern more formally, the argument of whether or not to abort is filled with case-by-case circumstances, and saying that humanity is better for the contributions of a person without taking into account the extent of the person's or their parent's suffering is far too reductive to stand as an argument.
- reagency 11y agoIf someone had never been born, someone similar would likely have been born shortly later, perhaps without the same disease. So your reasoning for treasuring his life over other possibilities doesn't hold.