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You know, every time there's a question of whether the strong will be allowed to prey upon the weak, you can generally count on the Right Wing being on the side of the big and strong. If you're weak, small or have less money, it must be because you're evil, incompetent or a drain on society. The strong are inherently virtuous.
Except when it comes to harvesting embryos for stem cell research.
Experimenting on humans without their consent is one of the worst human rights crimes in history, probably second only to genocide.
Okay, so the embryo isn't human? Then what species is it?
Oh, wait, it's a clump of tissue. But embryos have beating hearts and primitive brains and nervous systems. (Hard core Vegetarians eat fruits but won't eat animals because animals have brains.) How can a clump of tissue have that? And what 'clump of tissue' do you nourish that naturally grows into a newborn baby? (Ok now, someone please stop me when I make a factual error.) You can't nourish sperm and eggs and hope to see it grow into anything... unless they combine first. Hmmmmm. (Ok, did I make any factual errors here?)
But then again, nobody seems to care about Chinese prisoners being killed and cut up for body parts. Hell, wealthy Americans in need of a transplant, often go there and pay through the nose for their organs. Heck, any US law against killing death row inmates for organs rings pretty hollow when it's legal to offshore this horrible sin to China.
We're slowly moving into a culture of the strong preying on the weak with impugnity. On all fronts. Economic lines, prisoners in foreign countries, embryos...
What's the common trait of all these victims? They're not visible, or they're looked down upon. So much for free choice - we're starting to proactively deny human beings the choice to live. And it starts at the fringes, just as it always does.
First they came for the Jews. Pity so few people see the parallel here. After all, the victims are just some foreign prisoners or a friggin clump of cells with beating hearts and primitive brains. Wait, no, we're starting to add the homeless, the poor, and so on, to those ranks, too.
In the old days a non person was a flat out non person and they were openly marked for all manner of brutalities by human predators. Now we assign human beings into "twilight zones", ignore their plight altogether and go out of the country to exploit them in a country more permissive of our hypocrisies, and for those on the Right, of course, they're just too chickenshit to declare certain citizens non persons, although they act like they already have.
Yes, yes, I know, this is going to explode into an "if we give embryos rights, we have to give up some of our own, oh shit!" jihad.
Well frack me silly and call me Starbuck but the darnedest thing musta struck me out of nowhere. If I run over a hobo and nobody sees it, just to make it to a meeting on time, is it not a sin, or is it a sin because his brain is bigger?
I don't want to get into abortion. I want to know why we do a complete 180 when it comes to long standing values concerning nonconsentual human experimentation, and our desperate attempts to stuff more and more human beings into the twilight zone of "not non-human, but not human": the Rabid Right has always pissed on the poor and declared them non persons; but now we on the Left endorse having embryos to harvest, and we're flat out ignoring the plight of Chinese prisoners and enabling the Chi-Nazi's who are experimenting on them. Enjoy your cheap DVD players.
Oh, did I forget to mention this added benefit of stem cell transplants?
Except when it comes to harvesting embryos for stem cell research.
Experimenting on humans without their consent is one of the worst human rights crimes in history, probably second only to genocide.
Okay, so the embryo isn't human? Then what species is it?
Oh, wait, it's a clump of tissue. But embryos have beating hearts and primitive brains and nervous systems. (Hard core Vegetarians eat fruits but won't eat animals because animals have brains.) How can a clump of tissue have that? And what 'clump of tissue' do you nourish that naturally grows into a newborn baby? (Ok now, someone please stop me when I make a factual error.) You can't nourish sperm and eggs and hope to see it grow into anything... unless they combine first. Hmmmmm. (Ok, did I make any factual errors here?)
But then again, nobody seems to care about Chinese prisoners being killed and cut up for body parts. Hell, wealthy Americans in need of a transplant, often go there and pay through the nose for their organs. Heck, any US law against killing death row inmates for organs rings pretty hollow when it's legal to offshore this horrible sin to China.
We're slowly moving into a culture of the strong preying on the weak with impugnity. On all fronts. Economic lines, prisoners in foreign countries, embryos...
What's the common trait of all these victims? They're not visible, or they're looked down upon. So much for free choice - we're starting to proactively deny human beings the choice to live. And it starts at the fringes, just as it always does.
First they came for the Jews. Pity so few people see the parallel here. After all, the victims are just some foreign prisoners or a friggin clump of cells with beating hearts and primitive brains. Wait, no, we're starting to add the homeless, the poor, and so on, to those ranks, too.
In the old days a non person was a flat out non person and they were openly marked for all manner of brutalities by human predators. Now we assign human beings into "twilight zones", ignore their plight altogether and go out of the country to exploit them in a country more permissive of our hypocrisies, and for those on the Right, of course, they're just too chickenshit to declare certain citizens non persons, although they act like they already have.
Yes, yes, I know, this is going to explode into an "if we give embryos rights, we have to give up some of our own, oh shit!" jihad.
Well frack me silly and call me Starbuck but the darnedest thing musta struck me out of nowhere. If I run over a hobo and nobody sees it, just to make it to a meeting on time, is it not a sin, or is it a sin because his brain is bigger?
I don't want to get into abortion. I want to know why we do a complete 180 when it comes to long standing values concerning nonconsentual human experimentation, and our desperate attempts to stuff more and more human beings into the twilight zone of "not non-human, but not human": the Rabid Right has always pissed on the poor and declared them non persons; but now we on the Left endorse having embryos to harvest, and we're flat out ignoring the plight of Chinese prisoners and enabling the Chi-Nazi's who are experimenting on them. Enjoy your cheap DVD players.
Oh, did I forget to mention this added benefit of stem cell transplants?
