Mark Steyn: 'I'll have the rhino,' I said

As is the case of innocents being abandoned to deviants and degenerates just because the best wasn't around.

No, that would be leaving them there. In an orphanage where they have little food, poor medical care and the staff is, let's say, less then kind. In fact, deviants and degenerates fits them kind of well. And then at sixteen they are tossed onto the street. Shall I save maybe one kid a year in search of the best or should I save twenty by taking what is better?

These kids by the way are not abandon after they are placed. A big part of our job is follow up to make sure that the kids are well treated and happy. We do a much better job with our children adopted from overseas then the FIA does with their kids. 189 which they have literally lost I might add.

You send me the perfect couple and I will just about guarantee you that they will want a perfect kid. Well, I happen to be fresh out of perfect kids. I have kids who only have one eye, who are deaf, who scream if you touch them, who are scarred inside and out.

Shall I abandon these kids to a life that is purely hell on earth because of a shortage of the best? Or should I try to get them something better?

So far I have not had to make that decision. But just what, Mr. Allen would you have me do? Shall I place them with a nice lesbian couple who are not pedofiles or should I leave them to be raped by the orphanage staff?

a.cricket

What an arrogantly Al Goreleone/Elenor Clift question!

1. In an entire adult lifetime lived [On, I might add, a steady diet of adrenelene] in Asia, Africa, the Mid-East and the rest of the turd wurld, I have been involved in countless operations, some involving intense personal risk, that have saved thousands of lives, including those of many children. I am 8,500 miles from home and actively engaged in such activity as we speak.

2. I would/will NEVER consider a child's life "saved" if the best I could do for the child was to place it into the grasp of deviants and/or other perverts and/or degenerates.

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