“I suppose a greenie-weenie nature worshipper like you would disagree”
I suppose you’re hoping your silly insults will make me angry enough to act badly.
Gee, who else do we know that employs that strategy?
“Yes, in fact we ARE much smarter these days about matters of morality than our benighted primitive ancestors”
Is that why we’ve murdered over 50 million babies in this country alone since Roe versus Wade? Is that why criticism of same-sex attraction disorder gets people in trouble? Is that why we have so many illegitimate children and children of divorce? Is that why the Internet, potentially the greatest development in the history of mankind, is constantly used for conveying groundless insults and lying about events, policies, people, and everything else?
“we are also superior in the trait that makes us human — bending nature to our will, rather than vice versa.”
What are you, about 12 years old? Many species overcome nature in one way or another. Bees make hives for shelter and honey for food. Beavers make dams and lodges. The fact that our greater intelligence allows us to carry that further is a quantitative difference, not a qualitative one, and is very definitely not what makes us human.
“The separation of sex and reproduction…is an example of modern superiority.“
OOOooooo, right out of the feminazi handbook.
The separation of sex, reproduction, love, and marriage until death do us part is a *huge* tragedy.
It is now clear to me that you are not a conservative, and I have no interest in addressing your nonsense. Run along back to DU now, and leave the grownups alone.
You tell me, since you're the one who insists on using it that way.
First, though, answer the question -- are you going to concede that the way of modernism is morally superior to the way of slavers, witch-burners, and blood-sport audiences, or are you going to defend those concepts in order to uphold "tradition"?
If you're going to denigrate the fundamental importance of rational thought, there is only one thing to say:
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
--Thomas Paine