#but clarke wasn't RIGHT for picking and choosing survivors based on eugenics

[bombshellsandbluebells]

you know what one single line in s5 of The 100 still fills me with absolute rage?

Monty: (Harper) died today. She was pretty sick the last few years. Clarke, you were right. Her dad’s genetic condition finally got her.

But Clarke wasn’t right. Clarke said that Harper didn’t make the cut to save at the age of 16/17 because she MIGHT get sick and be a “drain on medical supplies.” Clarke was proposing eugenics because the possibility that Harper might eventually develop a hereditary illness meant any life she could have lived past her teenage years wasn’t worth it.

But Harper lived to be well into her 70s/80s (maybe older; it’s hard to figure out exactly how old she and Monty are supposed to be in the end) and she didn’t get sick until the last few years of her life. And, honestly, MOST people end up sick in some way or another when they get old. Harper isn’t unique just because her’s happened to be something hereditary. ANY person on the list who lived long enough MIGHT have gotten sick eventually. 

And despite the last few years of sickness, Harper had a good, long life. She was happy. She had a family. She had a child. All things she wouldn’t have been able to do if she had been left to die in Praimfiya on the chance she could get sick.

And suggesting in any kind of way that Clarke was RIGHT for saying Harper’s possible genetic condition meant she wasn’t worth saving fills me with absolute rage.