Whether one considers it political, religious, scientific....there is a huge divide over the value of an innocent human life.
Consider the following with an eye toward the importance of human life.
1. "A senior university lecturer and Czech government adviser, 78-year-old Miroslav Mitloehner, has been sacked from his positions over the views he expressed in Časopis zdravotnického práva a bioetiky (Journal of Medical Law and Bioethics).
2. .... children born with a severe disability should be left to die.
He explains in the abstract: It should be possible to abandon the effort to save lives (even when there is a chance of survival) when the malformations of the neonates are so severe that they exclude the future possibility for meaningful and conscious human existence.
3. This is not just a common argument; it is effectively legal in the Netherlands and it is a common practice in many other countries.
4. .... he used a word to describe these children which has been translated as freaks. Disability activists exploded and Mr Mitloehner became an unemployed bioethicist.
5. I have learned an important lesson from this imbroglio: language matters in discussing infanticide. If babies are called freaks, you will lose your job. If you speak respectfully about killing them, you will (like Peter Singer) get awards from your government."
BioEdge: An unemployed Czech bioethicist
When Illinois was debating a law that mandated that children born alive after a botched abortion deserve medical attention to keep them alive...how do you think Miroslav Mitloehner would have voted?
Once the question is answered in the manner of Dr. Mitloehner, "... born with a severe disability should be left to die....' how big a leap is it to see entire segments of the population as having such a "severe disability" and dealt with similarly?
It is instructive that Marxism, from which modern Liberalism is derivative, was the first modern political philosophy to authorize genocide as a political expedient.
6. "Early socialists publicly advocated genocide, in the 19th and 20th centuries. It first appeared in Marx's journal, Rheinishe Zeitung, in January of 1849. When the socialist class war happens, there will be primitive societies in Europe, two stages behind- not even capitalist yet- the Basques, the Bretons, the Scottish Highlanders, the Serbs, and others he calls 'racial trash,' and they will have to be destroyed because, being two stages behind in the class struggle, it will be impossible to bring them up to being revolutionary."
George Watson, Historian, Cambridge University.
a. "The classes and races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way...they must perish in the revolutionary holocaust."
Karl Marx, People's Paper, April 16, 1856, Journal of the History of Idea, 1981
Whether one child....or entire "classes and races," they must perish.....
Expediency, the efforts at efficiency by the Left.
Consider the following with an eye toward the importance of human life.
1. "A senior university lecturer and Czech government adviser, 78-year-old Miroslav Mitloehner, has been sacked from his positions over the views he expressed in Časopis zdravotnického práva a bioetiky (Journal of Medical Law and Bioethics).
2. .... children born with a severe disability should be left to die.
He explains in the abstract: It should be possible to abandon the effort to save lives (even when there is a chance of survival) when the malformations of the neonates are so severe that they exclude the future possibility for meaningful and conscious human existence.
3. This is not just a common argument; it is effectively legal in the Netherlands and it is a common practice in many other countries.
4. .... he used a word to describe these children which has been translated as freaks. Disability activists exploded and Mr Mitloehner became an unemployed bioethicist.
5. I have learned an important lesson from this imbroglio: language matters in discussing infanticide. If babies are called freaks, you will lose your job. If you speak respectfully about killing them, you will (like Peter Singer) get awards from your government."
BioEdge: An unemployed Czech bioethicist
When Illinois was debating a law that mandated that children born alive after a botched abortion deserve medical attention to keep them alive...how do you think Miroslav Mitloehner would have voted?
Once the question is answered in the manner of Dr. Mitloehner, "... born with a severe disability should be left to die....' how big a leap is it to see entire segments of the population as having such a "severe disability" and dealt with similarly?
It is instructive that Marxism, from which modern Liberalism is derivative, was the first modern political philosophy to authorize genocide as a political expedient.
6. "Early socialists publicly advocated genocide, in the 19th and 20th centuries. It first appeared in Marx's journal, Rheinishe Zeitung, in January of 1849. When the socialist class war happens, there will be primitive societies in Europe, two stages behind- not even capitalist yet- the Basques, the Bretons, the Scottish Highlanders, the Serbs, and others he calls 'racial trash,' and they will have to be destroyed because, being two stages behind in the class struggle, it will be impossible to bring them up to being revolutionary."
George Watson, Historian, Cambridge University.
a. "The classes and races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way...they must perish in the revolutionary holocaust."
Karl Marx, People's Paper, April 16, 1856, Journal of the History of Idea, 1981
Whether one child....or entire "classes and races," they must perish.....
Expediency, the efforts at efficiency by the Left.
