Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/12/2010 3:56:58 AM PDT by mattstat
When I was much younger and vastly stupider, I made a snide remark to my father who was engaged in what I thought was a drudgery. He shot me a look that was so at once so gentle and so withering that I have never forgotten it. “And here I thought I was enjoying myself,” he said.
This lesson in minding my own damn business was one of the crucial inoculations I received that prevented me from catching the disease of intellectualism.
But it was more than that. It also taught me what should have been obvious: we are often not the best judges of another’s happiness. True, there are limits and universals—there can be no proscription on proscriptions—and as parents we must act as judges, but for the nearly infinite mundane activities of mankind, we should not criticize, nor direct, nor legislate, nor regulate, nor bureaucratize, etc.
Pete Singer has not learned this lesson. He, and many of his fellow academic intellectual—many of whom are award winning—philosophers say that it would have been “better” if you had never been born; further, that it would be “better” if you never have children.
For people who categorize themselves as brilliant, what is most amazing is that those who promulgate such theories never see the immediate contradiction. If the brilliant had never been born, then the world would never have figured out that they should never have been born, either. For if these vast intellects never appeared, then mankind would have gone on procreating and saying to itself, “And here we thought we were enjoying ourselves.”
But never mind. It is an ...
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Castrating LIBs & Moonbats might be reasonable. Singer may be on to something here.
The people who spout that kind of claptrap are the worst kind of bigot, because when they are confronted as the article suggests, they of course exclude themselves and their progeny. However, when pressed on the idea that a brilliant mind can appear without extraordinary parents, it quickly becomes apparent that there are indeed “those people” for whom the rule should apply (generally excepting the questioner, and thus further illuminating the bankruptcy of the idea), and those to whom it should not. As soon as there is a “no” group, it must be defined, and then you find that they (carefully excluding race, usually) want to restart Margaret Sanger’s eugenics program, with the feeble-minded, the stupid, the disabled etc etc being included in the group forbidden to have children. Conversely, the “yes” group becomes the sheerest elitism, as the bar is set ever higher for admission.
Time for the libs to lead by example instead of their lips!
I have always wondered what happened to minding ones own business.
Life was better when thst was the case.
You first, Dr. Singer.
first, the headline should be castrate MEN....that’s what this is about.....
>> first, the headline should be castrate MEN
You sexist pig.
Fabian socialists are the worst kind of fascist.
Why not just lead them into the gas chambers? It will be quicker and cleaner.
Gas chambers are very expensive and have high maintenance costs. A bullet costs about ten to twenty-five cents and the rifle costs about fifty to five hundred dollars.
Why stop there? I’d support a program of spaying for leftwing harridans. Where do I contribute?
Singer first. Then all the other man-made global warming advocates.
Roughly 1/3 of the people are leftists who believe this junk science.....
.....Just think of the Utopia if 1/3 of the human tree branches were pruned?
At least we wouldn't have to put up with them in the future...
Start with the Asian Eastern shore, and move Westward with this program. When it reaches Europe slack off....... castrating the French was already accomplished in the 20th century.
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This has "Lib Idea" written all over it. Let's let them go first.
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