There are a number of ways to delineate between the Left and the Right, but the most cogent, the most significant is the view of human life.
1. None of the totalitarian forms of political plague have the slightest concern for human life: not communism (gulags), not Nazism (concentration camps), not Liberalism (abortion), not Progressivism (eugenics), not socialism (theft), not fascism (murder).
They only differ in the final outcome: slavery, serfdom, or death.
They all follow Trotsky: "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life."
2. Whether personal beliefs, or what we call 'politics,' or perhaps 'religion,' the real idea that determines what we will do in any and every situation, is one simple idea. Either one believes that human lives are sacred, or one believes that they can be exchanged to achieve some secular material goal.
3. "A Japanese professor at Yale floats the idea of mass suicide for the elderly
A film on the topic, Plan 75, was Japan’s entry for the best foreign feature film. The director, Chie Hayakawa, imagines a not-too-distant future in which senior citizens are coaxed into euthanasia plans by cheery young salespeople as if they were considering an overseas cruise.
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This might seem too pessimistic, but a recent feature in the New York Times profiled a Yale University economist who has floated an even darker idea — forcing old people to accept euthanasia. Thirty-eight-year-old Yusuke Narita has a huge social media following amongst disaffected Japanese youth who feel that the elderly are a logjam keeping them from advancing socially and professionally.
He seems to be a kind of Jordan Peterson without a moral compass.
5 “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” Narita said in one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?”
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1. None of the totalitarian forms of political plague have the slightest concern for human life: not communism (gulags), not Nazism (concentration camps), not Liberalism (abortion), not Progressivism (eugenics), not socialism (theft), not fascism (murder).
They only differ in the final outcome: slavery, serfdom, or death.
They all follow Trotsky: "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life."
2. Whether personal beliefs, or what we call 'politics,' or perhaps 'religion,' the real idea that determines what we will do in any and every situation, is one simple idea. Either one believes that human lives are sacred, or one believes that they can be exchanged to achieve some secular material goal.
3. "A Japanese professor at Yale floats the idea of mass suicide for the elderly
A film on the topic, Plan 75, was Japan’s entry for the best foreign feature film. The director, Chie Hayakawa, imagines a not-too-distant future in which senior citizens are coaxed into euthanasia plans by cheery young salespeople as if they were considering an overseas cruise.
4.
This might seem too pessimistic, but a recent feature in the New York Times profiled a Yale University economist who has floated an even darker idea — forcing old people to accept euthanasia. Thirty-eight-year-old Yusuke Narita has a huge social media following amongst disaffected Japanese youth who feel that the elderly are a logjam keeping them from advancing socially and professionally.
He seems to be a kind of Jordan Peterson without a moral compass.
5 “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” Narita said in one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?”
A Japanese professor at Yale floats the idea of mass suicide for the elderly | MercatorNet
With a fertility rate of about 1.3 children per woman and a third of the population over 65, it seems inevitable that some Japanese should begin thinking about institutionalized euthanasia. One out of five people live alone and Japan has the highest proportion of people suffering from dementia...
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