I know I’ll draw your ire for responding, but oh well. This subject is too important to be silent.
I think people have a visceral, innate knowledge that forced sterilization, with or without the benefit of “due process,” is wrong. It’s repugnant. It just is.
Seems to me that as soon as one even begins to weigh societal resources, needs, and benefits against the reproductive capability of the individual person, they have stepped onto the Utilitarian slippery slope that ultimately leads to such things as cattle cars, gas chambers, and crematoria.
Why?
Because not only does one then begin to play God, to substitute flawed, short-sighted human understanding and will for God’s will, they find themselves running smack up against one of God’s most important positive commands to all men: “Be fruitful and multiply,” a command that has never been revised or rescinded.
I agree. I did not advocate that.
Seems to me that as soon as one even begins to weigh societal resources, needs, and benefits against the reproductive capability of the individual person, they have stepped onto the Utilitarian slippery slope that ultimately leads to such things as cattle cars, gas chambers, and crematoria.
I said it was a slippery slope. Perhaps you should read the post to which you are replying more carefully.
Because not only does one then begin to play God, to substitute flawed, short-sighted human understanding and will for God’s will, they find themselves running smack up against one of God’s most important positive commands to all men: “Be fruitful and multiply,” a command that has never been revised or rescinded.
Now I am certain you did not read the post, as I cited the English for p'ru ur'vu as found in Genesis 1:28. "Being fruitful" does not include robbing sustenance and support from the parents of other children. There are thousands of children in this world who will die without that support. Because of our technology and the illegally forced pooling of financial resources capable of being expended on any one case (our lack of meekness before the Lord if you will), we have very difficult choices to make. That's just how things are.