i suspect you're defining 'productive' much more narrowly than i do. if you're able to communicate and add value to lives other than your own, i consider you productive.
i wouldn't have survived into adulthood without modern medicine. and i wouldn't be able to function in any useful way without modern medicine. part of me thinks that people like me are exactly what's wrong with the world -- allowed to survive to perpetuate bad genes (even though i choose not to). other times... well, that depends on whether i'm having a really bad day or not.
Re: Social Darwinism *still* sucks...
i wouldn't have survived into adulthood without modern medicine. and i wouldn't be able to function in any useful way without modern medicine. part of me thinks that people like me are exactly what's wrong with the world -- allowed to survive to perpetuate bad genes (even though i choose not to). other times... well, that depends on whether i'm having a really bad day or not.