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To: Keyes2000mt
"Walking home from the store, I hear a baby wailing through an apartment window on my street. I chuckle to myself and think how happy I am that won't be my window later this year."

This can't be real.

Nobody could be so callous.

It would be monstrous

6 posted on 07/31/2004 5:24:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("A republic, if we can revive it")
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To: BenLurkin
This can't be real. Nobody could be so callous. It would be monstrous I wish to God it weren't real, but unfortunately we're producing a culture of monsters.
7 posted on 07/31/2004 5:26:35 PM PDT by Keyes2000mt (Conservative Values in Idaho: http://adamsweb/us/IdahoConservative)
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To: BenLurkin
Nobody could be so callous.

I'm afraid so.


57 posted on 07/31/2004 6:23:54 PM PDT by kennedy
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To: BenLurkin
This can't be real. Nobody could be so callous. It would be monstrous

Human nature is monstrous. In pre-Christian Europe, unwanted babies were thrown into wells. I remember reading an account of a priest who was a missionary who was horrified that one could walk to a well and hear the cries of children. I can only assume that children were thrown into old, unused (and perhaps dry) wells and if they survived the fall and did not drown they starved to death.

Even in America not too long ago, mobs would lynch a black person on Saturday and the killers might show up for church on Sunday like nothing happened. Taking part in the ritual murder of human beings did not bother the sociopaths and the more normal people might have felt disdain for such activities but not to the point of really opposing lynchings, either.

Hitler and Stalin had no trouble recruiting killers, and most people went along with it -- some out of fear and some out of opportunism and some out of indifference.

Civilization is a very thin veneer over barbarism and conscience is a very fragile thing. It will always be a struggle to uphold civilized values. Indeed, it might be one of the few things we can do that really matters. But it has always been a struggle and often progress is made at a terrible cost but the alternative of accepting things as they are is even more terrible.

59 posted on 07/31/2004 6:25:35 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (Lurking since 1997!)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, some women who have had abortions can be this callous and monstrous.

I'll never forget the night I went to the home of a coworker to a party to show off her new house. She was married to an up and coming young executive at the hospital where we worked. After supper, we were sitting in the living room, talking, just getting to known each other in a general sort of way, when the talk turned to babies. The hostess volunteered that she'd had two abortions - one when, as she put it, "I was just young and wild and seeing if I could get pregnant" and another one with her current husband because the timing of a baby was "just not right". She told us she was glad she'd had the abortions and just considered those babies "clumps of cells." She said she would have never considered adoption because she didn't want some 20-year-old showing up on her doorstep one day and saying, "I'm your kid." She also told us, "If I hadn't had those abortions, I wouldn't have the nice house I live in today." My blood literally ran cold and I recoiled from the woman as if she were something slimy and unnatural. I left as quickly as possible and I couldn't bring myself to associate with her after that.

Ironically, she left the medical records department where we worked because she became pregnant - this time it was a baby and not a clump of cells I guess, in her opinion - and she had to stay on bedrest in order to carry the baby - due to her previous abortions. This woman was evil, truly evil, wrapped up in a nice country-club-gentility package.


93 posted on 07/31/2004 9:54:57 PM PDT by EagleMamaMT
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To: BenLurkin

Some of our politicians are this way.


107 posted on 07/31/2004 11:02:52 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: BenLurkin

Walking home from the store, I hear a baby wailing through an apartment window on my street. I chuckle to myself and think how happy I am that won't be my window later this year."

This can't be real.

Nobody could be so callous.

It would be monstrous

Hillary is!


108 posted on 07/31/2004 11:03:46 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: BenLurkin
It would be monstrous

Yes, these people are monsters. People without souls. Most Democrats and all Liberals are people without souls.

145 posted on 08/01/2004 11:36:03 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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