I am disgusted by the behaviour of Dr Kermit Gosnell but not surprised.
"All life is sacred" is a position that protects everyone.
As soon as you move away from that position no-one (absolutely no-one) is protected as the issue just becomes one of relative morality - and if it is relative then clever rhetorically-trained "experts" can move the argument in whatever way they wish.
If life is not sacred then humans are just animals. Therefore there is no real difference between snipping the spinal cord five minutes before birth or five minutes after birth. It's just an irrational dividing line right?
And if life is not sacred what is the point of all those cripples on life-support machines cluttering up the place. They would be better off dead. Most of them want to die anyway since by the standards of materialist consumerism their "quality of life" is more or less zero.
And if life is not sacred we may as well get rid of the mentally ill since we can't be bothered to look after them properly.
And if life is not sacred we should allow "society" to get rid of all the oddballs and weirdos who don't fit in - let's have a regular cull to clear out all the ones we don't like.
And if life is not sacred we might as well eradicate all those who are surplus to requirements in the new globalised economy, since we can't afford to carry any freeloaders.
And if life is not sacred we would be justified in shooting all those whose pig-iron production has not reached the allocated target this year.
And so on.
You can see what sort of society this is going to lead to (perhaps has already led to).
"All life is sacred" is a position that protects everyone.
As soon as you move away from that position no-one (absolutely no-one) is protected as the issue just becomes one of relative morality - and if it is relative then clever rhetorically-trained "experts" can move the argument in whatever way they wish.
If life is not sacred then humans are just animals. Therefore there is no real difference between snipping the spinal cord five minutes before birth or five minutes after birth. It's just an irrational dividing line right?
And if life is not sacred what is the point of all those cripples on life-support machines cluttering up the place. They would be better off dead. Most of them want to die anyway since by the standards of materialist consumerism their "quality of life" is more or less zero.
And if life is not sacred we may as well get rid of the mentally ill since we can't be bothered to look after them properly.
And if life is not sacred we should allow "society" to get rid of all the oddballs and weirdos who don't fit in - let's have a regular cull to clear out all the ones we don't like.
And if life is not sacred we might as well eradicate all those who are surplus to requirements in the new globalised economy, since we can't afford to carry any freeloaders.
And if life is not sacred we would be justified in shooting all those whose pig-iron production has not reached the allocated target this year.
And so on.
You can see what sort of society this is going to lead to (perhaps has already led to).
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