Posted on 04/21/2011 6:36:48 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
Society doesn't OWE YOU to support your proclivities!
Sounds to me like the writer of this diatribe just ADORES welfare queens squiting out as many youn’uns as possible and sticking Joe Taxpayer with the bills.
1965—When the South was solidly Democrat.
I’ll bet $5.00 on the party affiliation of the members of the State Eugenics Board—No, make it $10.00.
That’s reasonable enough as far as those on welfare, but a eugenics board would probably go further than that. Targeting people with low IQ scores, for example.
Would it target homosexuals too?
Homosexuals could only be targeted if openly gay. Now if a gay gene were ever discovered, that would open a can of worms. Gay activists attempting to prove the existence of a gay gene haven’t thought out all the ramifications of this.
Targeting people with low IQ scores, for example.
I don’t think so. Who would they get to vote for democrats if they did that?
If the most casual contact with the term “eugenics” doesn’t send a chill of horror down your spine, you are not a Republican, nor are you a conservative.
Which begs the question...Why are you posting here?
True. I was thinking more of early 20th century eugenicists who were concerned with the heritability of intelligence.
If the most casual contact with the term “eugenics” doesn’t send a chill of horror down your spine, you are not a Republican, nor are you a conservative.
Which begs the question...Why are you posting here?
Strange, isn’t it?
Democrats/Socialists/Progressives “claim” to be all about an individuals right to choose.
As long as “they” get to dictate the scope and terms of the choice.
My opinion is that people have the right to have children as they choose without government interference, and without government support. When the second condition is missing, it becomes easier for the state to justify taking away the first condition.
“Gay activists attempting to prove the existence of a gay gene haven’t thought out all the ramifications of this.”
They certainly should; India is the largest democracy in the world, and they’ve had to put limits on abortion with a strange twist: once parents realized the baby in the womb was female, they would abort them. The government stepped in, and banned abortion after ultrasounds had determined the gender of the baby. The freedom-loving Indians have responded by 1) having covert abortions done anyway, or 2) carrying the child to term and leaving them on the roadside to die. It is inevitable, I guess, in areas where a dowry can cost 5 years’ wages...
Good argument for abolishing the dowry system. Though my father has opined that the tradition of a bride’s parents paying for her wedding is a form of dowry.
Your opinion falsely supposes our Government has, or should have, jurisdiction over the private, individual sexual activities of mutually consenting adults.
The government does have legal jurisdiction to protect minor children from all forms of sexual predation, and also “protects” adults, via laws against rape and prostitution, and specific restrictions against incest, pornography and many other matters related to sexually deviant behavior.
Our government does not have the authority to dictate that certain conditions must be met, prior to adult procreation.
Are you certain you are on the right website?
Then let’s end the welfare entitlements.
Leeches are leeches.
If you can't tell the difference, why are you posting here?
“Though my father has opined that the tradition of a bride’s parents paying for her wedding is a form of dowry.”
I agree with him, but it isn’t five years’ pay. That practice is slowly disappearing here in the northeast, where weddings can run $30K for what many (here) would consider an average wedding. Oftentimes, with people I know, the brides’ parents put up something, and let the couple determine how to spend it in terms of what kind of wedding they want.
India also is a little different in that often the sons (and their wives) rather than the daughters care for their parents later in life.
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