Posted on 11/23/2007 4:50:44 AM PST by steadfastconservative
Her Mum and Dad must be so proud! And so happy they don’t have to enjoy grandchildren. What a waste of time that would be.
They should off themselves and complete the job.
I don’t think that she is insane or stupid. She is selfish and she is rationalizing that selfishness by claiming that her choice is good for the environment. She is denying to others the goods of the earth, the good of life, which she herself enjoys.
thanks for the thanksgiving puke!!!!
Just imagine all the Earth destroying power that went into publishing this particular story in print and on the Internet. Thousands of acts were set in motion when the subjects of this story agreed to blab a little bit about their moronic outlook on life. Trees were killed so that this story could be printed. Fuel was burned at various points along the way. Energy was consumed. Even now, as we all sit in our homes, we are the hapless victims/accomplices of these so called eco-friendly citizens. The doomsday clock just clicked another few seconds ahead, thanks to these selfish rat-bastards. I hope they can live with that.
:P
Darwinism at work. Methinks we don’t want her offspring around....more welfare mouths to feed. Why welfare? That kind of thinking shows the signs of a future English major....who will publish in the Journal of Modern Languages and have no source of income save for some “university” taking our taxes and burning the money. Sheesh.....give her the abortion now!!
In a way, that's true. Unfortunately for us, as confirmed fanatics, they will relentlessly crusade to force their insane views on us for the rest of their miserable, twisted lives.
These are now totalitarian activists who will never, ever stop in their quest to validate their own eco-fascist pathologies by making the rest of us adhere to them. They have cut off their noses to spite their faces and they will make the rest of us do the same if they can accomplish it.
...not with a turkey baster.
Whether you follow a particular religion or are an atheist, it is an undeniable fact that it took a heck of a lot of effort to pass the spark of life, the primordial life force, or what ever you care to call it, on to you. It is an act of supreme ingratitude all the way back to the very beginning of your line of predecessors (human and/or otherwise) to say you have so little regard for this most precious gift, that you don’t want to pass it on to at least one person in the next generation.
Further, the effort required to responsibly conceive, care for, and guide children to adulthood is, in my opinion, perhaps the key experience that helps develop a sense of generosity and compassion in individual human beings. It also provides a transcendent shared common experience that can act as a basis for interaction among what are otherwise highly diverse peoples and cultures.
This is not an argument for high birthrates or for compulsory parenthood. There are clearly persons who have no business becoming parents. There is, arguably, a point where a family or a nation can have severe problems with having too many children (just as it can with too few children being born). The acknowledged “no net growth rate” for reproduction at the societal level is 2.1 children per woman (split almost evenly between males and females at birth). Obviously, this woman’s lack of participation (and any others like her) will be offset by women who have three or more children. However, when there are too many women having too few babies (as is currently the case in western Europe, Russia, and Japan), you get population contraction which can have devastating military, political, economic, and environmental effects on society.
There is some truth in the argument that the deliberately childless, especially those who decide to take that stance for ecological reasons, should go ahead and commit suicide. They continue to consume resources as long as they are alive. Very few of them (like the rest of us) are likely to live lives of such outstanding merit that it can justify their continued burden on the earth (poor, poor Mother Earth). This is especially true after middle age when they begin to consume resources in greater amounts than they themselves can offset by their own productive efforts. At that point, they become parasites. Now, if they had children and grand children, they could claim that their continued resource needs are offset by the surplus in the productive efforts of their descendants.
Of course, I don’t personally believe in or endorse this suicide argument because it is an affront to Almighty God, the creator and sustainer of all.
Real nice. Some people can't have kids you know.
And when these a-holes retire they will no doubt refuse all Medicare, Social Security, any other government funded benefits, to avoid living off the labors of other people's children. Right. Talk about selfish.
I think it's the other way around, Einstein.
Actually that seems to be true. If they think at all, it is in sound bites and cliches, not rational trains of thought that start with a question and lead to an answer. Instead they absorb pre-programmed answers and then apply them rather indiscriminately to questions.
It would be a really good idea to spread this belief in all the countries of the middle east and africa.
As an only child, I can say one my life’s regrets will be that I didn’t have a sibling.
There is no one that I share genetics or upbringing, and it leaves me with a feeling of being “cut off”.
I have no anger towards my parents, as I know they thought that it was best. (My father actually wanted no children, but agreed to one.)
I now have a 5yo daughter, and another due next month. Don’t know if we’ll have anymore or not, since we are both in our upper ‘30s.
IMO, the greatest gift to my daughter will be a little sister, and vice versa.
Natural selection in real time.
I think it’s a wonderful thing. She will not reproduce creating more idiots like herself. She takes herself out of the gene pool. Now if only she can create a movement of like idiots.
“We feel we can have one long-haul flight a year, as we are vegan and childless, thereby greatly reducing our carbon footprint and combating over-population.”
If she was as breathless as she sounds, she could eliminate her carbon footprint altogether.
Who do you suppose paid for the abortion and sterilization?
Why don’t they do the right thing and just kill themselves...the ultimate sacrifice
easy to abort a baby....the baby had no say.
cowards and fools....sick.....and way too many of them
they can all off themselves and save an army of carbon effin footprints
i have yet to meet any hardcore lefties who are not mentally ill and incredibly messed up with low self esteem and malignant narcissim...the usual lib paradox of personality
The New Gods.....Environmentalism and Sensitivity to Bigotry and Racism
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