I am surprised how often comes up in the blogsphere. What I am also surprised at is the inconsistency of the anti-choice position when it comes to war and capital punishment. The fetus fetishists fall over themselves decrying the evils of abortion and how women must be prevented from exercising their rights to bodily autonomy while all the while the politicians they support go to war, enact egregious foreign policy and support predatory capitalism/globalism.
How about this? Let’s not go to war and kill thousands of innocent people for the lofty notions of ‘fighting terrorism’ or ‘energy security'(those damn arabs having the nerve to live on top of *our* oil. Or, let us donate the full .07 of our GNP so the thousands of children that die every day from lack of clean water/starvation can be saved. Or the thousands of children who die from malaria that could be saved by inexpensive mosquito netting?
Nah.
That would conflict with the accepted foreign policy goals. Debate on those topics is verboten. What is on the table though saving lives via denuding women of their bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom. We can debate that until the cows come home.
Utter horse-pucky.
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3 comments
January 1, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Alan Scott
Amazing how killing live American fetuses is the same as killing terrorists ,importing oil, and YOUR lack of donating to starving kids in the third world.
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January 2, 2010 at 8:05 am
The Arbourist
Welcome to my blog Mr.Scott. I’m glad to note that you’ve maintained your thoroughly coherent commenting standards and shared them here.
AS says: Amazing how killing live American fetuses is the same as killing terrorists
I have not seen any terrorists hiding in utero as of late. Although EVIL is tricky.
importing oil,
Son, this is Alberta. We export oil here ,boy. :)
YOUR lack of donating to starving kids in the third world.
Now how did you get a hold of my records Mr.Scott? Or is this just a baseless accusation somehow trying to equivocate my personal outlay of charitable donations to that of the United States and Canadian government.?
Or is it perhaps the Tu Quoque fallacy slipping into your assertions again? It certainly seems like it as here is what I said:
Arb:Or, let us donate the full .07 of our GNP so the thousands of children that die every day from lack of clean water/starvation can be saved. Or the thousands of children who die from malaria that could be saved by inexpensive mosquito netting?
and here is what you said: AS:YOUR lack of donating to starving kids in the third world.
Now how does my personal record of donating or not impact my assertion that Western countries by not donating the .07 of their GNP to poverty reduction is causing needless death and suffering?
In short, it does not.
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January 2, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Alan Scott
Arbourist,
I do appreciate your country exporting all that oil to us in the lower 48. Cause we are too freaking stupid to drill for our own. I am doing my part to wipe out the baby seals that you Canadians seem to be infested with. I can’t see any other reason why you would want to increase your polar bear herd. I walk to work and when I drive it is usually my old 99 hyundai 42.5 MPG Accent. I can only fit midgets and dwarfs in the back seat, but it’s a small price to pay to keep the frozen North from melting all over my back yard. I wonder if I can sell Carbon credits to progressives for the Carbon I did not emit.
“Now how does my personal record of donating or not impact my assertion that Western countries by not donating the .07 of their GNP to poverty reduction is causing needless death and suffering?”
Ok, ok, I lumped you in with the stereotype of liberals, which is that they are the most generous givers of money to worthy causes as long as it is other people’s money, such as confiscated tax money. Since they stereotypically do not believe in a Supreme Being, aka. God, there is no reason for them to worry about an imaginary being keeping score for a non existent afterlife. This makes them the cheapest of the cheap when it comes to making the sacrifice of giving away their own money to the poor and unwashed.
Of course I see now this does not pertain to you. And thank you for the welcome.
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