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To: hershey

When money is involved, our secular culture doesn't care about anything else. They run down their own mothers in the street to chase a buck.
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I suppose that's why so many people are willing to humiliate themselves on these reality tv shows--no self respect; just media whoring and dollar chasing.

Good, God-fearing people must take this country back. Stand or fall.


2,471 posted on 03/31/2005 7:19:40 PM PST by ariamne (reformed liberal--Shieldmaiden of the Infidel)
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To: ariamne; sfimom
Just read this segment in Taranto's WSJ Best of the Web.

"In a fascinating essay for The Weekly Standard, Eric Cohen argues that what went wrong in the Schiavo case was that "procedural liberalism"--the respect for Mrs. Schiavo's right to make her own decisions--gave way to "ideological liberalism"--the presumption that because she was unable to make such decisions, her life was worthless:

Treating autonomy as an absolute makes a person's dignity turn entirely on his or her capacity to act autonomously. It leads to the view that only those with the ability to express their will possess any dignity at all--everyone else is "life unworthy of life."

This is what ideological liberalism now seems to believe--whether in regard to early human embryos, or late-stage dementia patients, or fetuses with Down syndrome. And in the end, the Schiavo case is just one more act in modern liberalism's betrayal of the vulnerable people it once claimed to speak for.

Opinion on the Schiavo case did not split along traditional left-right lines, of course; libertarian-leaning conservatives tended to side with those who wished to pull her feeding tube. Autonomy and compassion are both important values, and there are dangers in overvaluing either at the expense of the other.

It does seem, though, that the "religious right," for better or worse, has supplanted the liberal left as the political faction that most strongly and consistently advocates compassion in social policy."

2,481 posted on 03/31/2005 7:25:48 PM PST by CHARLITE (Women are powerful; freedom is beautiful.........and STUPID IS FOREVER!)
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To: ariamne

That is so true. TV gobbles up so much, so fast, constantly, that there's little time for anything creative or well worth watching; and the reality shows have hit rock bottom. No subtlety, gimme, gimme, gimme; and it won't change until they realize there's no more money to be made.


2,499 posted on 03/31/2005 7:34:05 PM PST by hershey
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