To: demosthenes the elder
No, these are the people you explicitly denied exist. Accuracy, my son, accuracy. It is ever to be desired. Or don't you agree? And, hold on, yes. I would like to see us emulate the Spartans, to some extent. I shall consider myself corrected then, and put you on record as supporting the murder of healthy newborn children. When I said "no-one" I was speaking in the context of rational people of today, obviously when you delve back far enough into history you'll find societies who condoned any number of things that we now consider evil beyond a doubt.
424 posted on
11/15/2002 7:55:42 PM PST by
Godel
To: Godel
Ah, so you are going on record as calling the Israelites and Joshua and, by extension and proxy, the Lord of Hosts YOUR GOD "evil beyond a doubt"?
You have been successfully baited, Godel, and you have fallen into the pit you yourself have digged.
Just try to avoid sloppy use of absolute descriptions.
By the way, master of ignorant judgementalism, absolutism, and overstatement, the Spartans did not advocate the murder of healthy newborns: They advocated and practiced the pragmatic murder of two-year-old children who, after physical examination, were determined unable to grow up to be Spartans. I do not know what reproductive customs the helots of Sparta practiced.
I do not see the killing of severe defectives wrong. On the contrary, I believe forcing parents and doctors to take extreme measures to prolong a life that will never amount to a functional human being to be truly evil.
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