Posted on 11/27/2005 10:56:54 AM PST by 1066AD
Tinfoil whacko nonsense.
Can't stand the man but, let's be honest here. Singer advocates killing babies up to one month old.
Except for the Chicoms, I fully expect every one of those things to be around in 2040, assuming the Apocalypse hasn't come to pass. I think the Chinese political system, whether it's free or unfree, will have dropped even lip service to Communism at that point.
OR the way they WISH is more like it.
The thing about this is the same as for the Club of Rome. Their world is closed, that is, it is a system--pre-Copernican--planet earth by itself in the unimaginably huge universe that has no practical limits as far as the lifetime of our species is concerned. It takes no account of anything that might be developed off planet, off earth. They will do whatever, neglect whatever, to ensure their world remains closed.
A gem, now?
Is that right? I read one year, but the information wasn't directly from Singer so it may have been wrong.
I think you're wrong. I heard him interviewed and I'm sure he said up to a year.
Could be why space exploration has pretty much stopped in the US.
Sanctity of life-- American conservatives have for several years been in the awkward position of defending a federal funding ban on creating new embryos for research that prevents U.S. scientists from leading an area of biomedical research that could revolutionize the treatment of many common diseases. When they are honest, conservatives acknowledge that giving up some medical advances is simply the price to be paid for doing the right thing. This is fast becoming an untenable position, especially with the advance of cloning technology.
I'm all for medical research, whatever sort private industry can support. As for federal funding of it, cut it off completely. Not from a moral standpoint as much as a fiscal standpoint. But leave it to Republicans, if they know of a way to waste money, they'll be at the forefront calling for it.
Political parties
Can anyone truly disagree the two parties aren't just different facets of the same party? They no longer argue over issues, but rather over the level of how much money they should waste.
Doctor's offices
Have you seen the bathroom accesories you can put in your own house now? The doctor can actually see your symptoms without you even having to leave your house.
Sovereignty
Well the national government destroyed that of the states already in our own nation. It's not such a big step to assume that our own leaders, Republican or Democrat, will gleefully hand it over one day
Why would she have to go to Canada? Overturning Roe v Wade would simply return the issue to the individual states, where it should be.
The problem lies with too many people thinking that overturning Roe v Wade equates to making abortion illegal.
Most animal rights activists have a deep disdain for human beings.
Seems any way to look at that theory it is suicidal -- it can only be murder.
The Constitution does not proclaim a "right to happiness" -- only to the "pursuit of happiness". That means, in essence, that the Framers recognized that we are each and all always short of the mark, happiness-wise, thus that we will always have some misery and struggles, but that we have a right even a duty, perhaps, to pursue what happiness we can.
That's a social theory, btw, straight out of Genesis.
The morality of abortion aside, Roe v. Wade is a travesty because it is nothing more than the unconstitutional amendment of the U.S. Constitution by judicial decree.
Once the judiciary can can simply invent what is in the Constitution just as the ancient priests of the Oracle of Delphi invented prophesy by pretending to "read" chicken entrails, then we live under the tyranny of a judicial oligarchy and no longer live in a constitutional republic.
If Roe v. Wade were to be overturned today, all it would mean is that the legal issues over abortion would be decided by each State without interference from the Federal Government as the U.S. Constitution clearly intended such issues to be decided as stated in the Tenth Amendment.
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Liberal Blue States would continue to have abortion as if nothing had happened.
If the liberals want to truly have a constitutional right to abortion enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, then they should get a constitutional amendment to that effect ratified.
It is the corporations that both provide for economic growth and limit economic growth. When private property rights are created in outer space, they will go to corporations only. Corporations are our modern slaves. Corporations are taken as legal persons by the Fourteenth Amendment, yet it is illegal to own persons; neverthless, the corporations are owned.
Surely to folks like the mass-murderous Professor Singer "zionism" is a particular form of sovereignity, if not the most despised form of it.
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