Little Book of Horrors: Tracing a Deadly Legacy

Breakpoint ^ | 8/16/06 | Kim Moreland

[wagglebee]

The unthinkable-to-unexceptionable took place in Hitler’s Germany, and we’re on our own American-style trajectory to perfecting the human race. One lawyer at the Nazi war trials said that savagery like that committed by Nazi Germans becomes doable after you “decide that one group of human beings have lost human rights.”

This is distubingly true.

[wagglebee]

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This is an excellent commentary.

[wagglebee]

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[Guenevere]

bttt

[muawiyah]

Did you ever notice how none of these characters who want everybody else to relish death try it themselves.

[syriacus]

Edwards directs us “to consider the quality of our children.”

One man's lack of quality is another man's diversity.

Once we decide a person's right to life depends on his "quality," there will be no end to the requirements. People will become commodities, easily outdated like cars and computers.

And, who decides what level of quality is "good enough"?

[wagglebee]

And, who decides what level of quality is "good enough"?

Several decades ago, it was this man, I'm sure the Culture of Death will find someone with similar "ethics."

Dr. Josef Mengele

[redgolum]

I love history. The rise of the eugenics movement that resulted in the Holocaust and abortion has been something that I felt the need to research.

For a long time, I did not understand how a civilized society (as the US, England, and Germany were) in the 30's could not only accept such things as involuntary sterilization and abortions, but go even beyond them to the mass killings in Germany and the Soviet Union.

Then I started to hear the same arguments used by the early eugenicists and racial purists being used by todays scientists and so called "ethicists". Our genocide today quieter, but no less horrible. Saying that killing babies is not only ok, but a good and moral thing is a sacrilege of Natural Law.

[syriacus]

Yes. The most brutish float to the top positions in a brutal society.

[wagglebee]

Read some of the links on this page, it will scare the hell out of you.

http://www.eugenics.net/index.html

[redgolum]

There were many before him in the US, who admired Mengele and the racial purity laws in pre war Nazi Germany. Remember, the most dangerous things about the Nazi's was that they were a very logical group. They took their theology (which it was a religion) to the logical conclusion. Much like today. The governor of Illinois just signed an executive order to "fund stem cell research".

We are not, despite all claims to the contrary, a Christian nation.

[redgolum]

They are only repackaged ideas from the past. Read "War Against the Weak" by Edmond Black sometime.

A died in the wool liberal who had to take a long hard look in the mirror after writing that one.

[BykrBayb]

What was it we said after WWII? "Never again." Unless of course it actually does happen again. In which case, we'll yell "Godwin's Law" at anyone who can prove it.

[BykrBayb]

I tried. After reading the intro, I was too scared to click the links.

[little jeremiah]

Yes. Life is of value not because of any particular qualities, but because it is from God. Every life has inherent spiritual value. Once this basic universal truth is jettisoned, the law of the jungle will look like gentlemanly behavior in comparison to the resultant butchery and savagery.

[wagglebee]

We said "Never Again," but Roe v. Wade started a new "holocaust" which has claimed nearly 50 lives since 1973.

http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html

[BykrBayb]

nearly 50 ^million lives

[MrEdd]

nearly 50 ^million lives

Wagglebee has a Viet Nam era keyboard, which can't produce superscript.

courage

[WorkingClassFilth]

As a matter of fact, Peter Singer's own mother developed Alzheimer's (SP) disease. He hired a live-in nurse to care for her and defended his rather hypocritical actions by saying that he was rethinking the difficulty of euthanasia - in some cases.

Nice.