"Meet the women who won't have babies--because they're not so eco friendly"

Daily Mail ^ | Nov. 21, 2007 | Natasha Courtenay Smith and Morag Turner

[steadfastconservative]

The title of the newspaper article should have read: "Idiots who believe that people are pollution--thank heaven, they are not reproducing!"

What the couples in this story don't realize is that it is the people who have children, who will determine the direction that the culture takes in the future and that when childless couples die, their beliefs die with them. Which is good.

[chopperman]

Why can’t this be a muslim belief?

[kjo]

More Liberal insanity.

Liberalism is a mental disorder. So many of them simply have never been taught how to think.

[HiTech RedNeck]

it’s like gays, they recruit

[wideawake]

It’s interesting that, in our contemporary society, people who are obviously insane are treated as if they were of sound mind.

[RetiredArmy]

If only her mother would have had an abortion. All would be well in her wacko world.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Maybe she and her husband should just off themselves. Or, is the root of the problem that they are just plain selfish?

[steadfastconservative]

Somehow I doubt if this woman would ever admit that her mother had every right to have an abortion and that it would have been a good thing for the planet if she had done so.

[RetiredArmy]

Yup. Just like all these liberal pigs who complain about the world being over populated and that mankind should be culled out or something. I offer they should begin by killing themselves and assisting the green world view. But, you know liberals, all this stuff is good for US to do, not THEM.

[Coastie]

A little chlorine in the gene pool every now and then is not a bad thing.

[Archon of the East]

LOL a mental disorder indeed.

[Dilbert San Diego]

These types of people feel so morally superior to the rest of us. They worship Al Gore and carbon footprints the way other people go to church and worship God.

She’s a hypocrite because she will feel entitled someday to getting her social security and government benefits, or whatever the British equivalent is. And those benefits will be paid for by somebody else’s children.

[cgbg]

Ayn Rand wrote about people like this woman. She has made a choice between life and death--a choice only humans can make.

Her only logical flaw is that she has failed to follow her passion for death to its logical conclusion--suicide.

Her notion that each new person is a net cost to society and the planet is true--under socialism.

Under capitalism each person is a valuable asset to all of us.

That is why each loss of economic liberty to government control is a vote for human suffering and death.

In the "mixed economy" of today it is understandable that she is confused whether life or death should be a value.

She is not insane in my view--she is merely too stupid to understand her political and economic environment and too emotional to make a serious attempt to face the meaning of her decision.

[RangerM]

Let’s just be thankful that she is ending that gene pool. She is doing the rest of us a favor. </sarcasm>

Actually, it’s quite scary that there are people who would go to the lengths this woman would. Rational people believe that she will one day “see the light”. I doubt it. She has now committed herself to a path of (self-defined, and lack of a better term) “righteousness” that she can ill afford to betray.

Such is her insanity that she will continue the charade, regardless of any doubts, because her belief in her own “Self-righteousness” is so strong, that to admit she is wrong is to admit that she is not perfect.

Selfish would seem to apply as much, if not more, to her.

or at least, self-centered.

[Dr. Thorne]

Now Thank We All Our God... that these churls do not spawn.

[TYVets]

She is not insane in my view--she is merely too stupid to understand her political and economic environment and too emotional to make a serious attempt to face the meaning of her decision.

With her outlook I think it is great she will not reproduce.

[Misschuck]

Very astute reply.

[wideawake]

She’s a hypocrite because she will feel entitled someday to getting her social security and government benefits, or whatever the British equivalent is. And those benefits will be paid for by somebody else’s children.

Well said. These women are hypocrites in a number of ways.

(1) Each of them, living in the UK, have a "carbon footprint" far, far, far larger than a family of six in India, say. But neither of them would ever dream of consciously and intentionally living in poverty in order to live up to their ideals.

(2) They say that it is selfish to have children, but one of them claims to love other people's children. People do not love children when they consider children to be an immoral and selfish burden on the planet.

(3) If their goal is the reduction of the number of human beings on the planet, they are hypocrites for not committing suicide. That is obviously the most direct and foolproof method of reducing the human population they believe is poisoning the earth.

(4) Plenty of gung-ho environmentalists have children. So these women can give whatever rationalization they want for not having children - it is automatically hollow.

(5) When they are elderly, as you pointed out, they will have no children to look after them. As a result, they will become a responsibility of the state and therefore of other people's children. Not only that, but the state is the least efficient caregiver possible for the elderly - if these women and their spouses (can't really call them husbands) live as long as they are expected to, they will spend thirty years living off other people's taxes and labor.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

I can hardly wait until this idiot hits the nursing home circuit. They may not change her for weeks. She won’t have children to see that she is not abused. Even now, you see these old women that nobody visits. This lady subscribes to the liberal mantra “killing the culture, one abortion at a time”..

[iowamark]

The Muslims must cheer when they read stories like this.