Posted on 09/18/2008 8:55:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
No kidding. To measure the value of a human being based on a single defect is ridiculous. And people with Downs seem to have a special grace as compensation. I'd rather be stuck on a desert island for 6 months with a couple Down Syndrome kids than a pack of university professors or folks like this writer, that's for sure. He's the one with inferior worth, because of his arrogance and self-righteousness compared to the kindness and unassuming nature of folks with Downs.
There have been times when the tests were wrong. Some have chosen to have the baby, even after being told the baby would be handicapped, only to give birth to a very healthy child.
Makes you wonder how many of the so called 90-95% aborted babies, for this reason, are really just false positive tests.
Could someone post a still from Logan’s Run?
Ha! They can keep on writing this trash because it is only going to help the conservative side.
Figures. Maher has admitted that's he's a libertartian.
This will not go over well with most Americans.
There are some times I am so ticked off at the idiocy of thought by the left, I cannot bring myself to type what my brain wants me to, so I have to post it like that.
BTW, how did you fare through the hurricane and its aftermath?
You can stop trying to paint us all with the same brush...
No one is surprised by this if they have read Ayn Rand.
Given this conclusion, what makes it any less moral to snuff out the baby after birth? Barry Obama did not want to end the practice of killing babies "born alive".
The argument is straight from Nazi talking points.
I'm not sure what calculus this so-called "objectivist" is using, but he's got a serious logic flaw in there some where. Probably right next to his socialist leanings and fellow travelers ideology.
The philosophy of human individuality known as objectivism goes far beyond what Ms. Rand wrote.
What this idiot is writing is like saying that "for certain values of A, A does not in fact equal A". This violates a basic precept and invalidates his argument. He doesn't get to set the value of someone else's life.
Period.
“A parent has a moral obligation to provide for his or her children until these children are equipped to provide for themselves.”
Uh, nu-unh.
Dems think the GOVERNMENT has that obligation. In fact, they are doing everything they can make sure that your children belong to the STATE, which contractually, your kids probably do.
Pro-abortion, pro-sodomy, pro-drugs, pro-open borders, anti-conservative...
Sounds like your libertarian soul mate.
Unfortunately, you've lost all entertainment value as a punching bag.
I don’t think this will play well with most Americans.
Maher, the world’s most famous libertarian, brings a pro-abort Objectivist on his show.
You must be so proud.
>>This will not go over well with most Americans.
Only the ones who aren’t too busy - too busy super-sizing themselves into consumer oblivion, to notice.
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