Late term abortion basically outlawed in Florida

[Meursault]

Christian natalism is a horrific parody of the values rooted in the Earth. In a thousand years our descendants will regard our religious humanists, and their secular inheritors, as monsters.

[Meursault]

Values which are anchored in soil. Among these are cultivation. Floridans should know about that.

[Meursault]

The pro-life position is the product of a false and lying sentimentality, encouraged by the false and lying desert religions. It is an abomination.

[Meursault]

The "sanctity of life" is an empty slogan. Is all life 'created' equally? No. Not even identical twins are equals.

I will categorically reject any 'secular framework' which embraces platitudinous bilge such as what that phrase implies.

[Meursault]

Certainly. You may and will posit that "you'd probably qualify yourself", and I'd be happy to grant that - and to continue insisting that it changes nothing. It would be a better line of attack for you than the inevitable Aktion T-4 comparison, at any rate: I propose no racial criteria.

When I grew up, I always got an earful about how liberals were effeminate bleeding-hearts and irrationalists. The opposite is true.

[Meursault]

There is no - and can be no - definition of 'life' from the vantage-point of life whatsoever: the twilit, purgatorial status of the virus demonstrates as much.

[Meursault]

It's 'nihilist' only in the technical (mereological) sense: the existence of viruses, prions, certain amoebas, etc.  greatly complicate any effort to define 'life' without resorting to spiritualist language.

[Meursault]

Viruses are not the only ambiguity. Virions, prions, single-celled amoeba, and certain fungi all share traits with both living and inert matter.

Obviously, semen, eggs, etc. are 'more alive' than these. But to imbue these, and the human versions of them alone, with magic traits is arbitrary.

[Meursault]

A degree of arbitrariness is inevitable in all we do; interestedness is inescapable. This is the paradox of moral absolutism: on a certain level the moral absolutist must (and does) acknowledge the relativity of his views. This is the genesis of hypocrisy.

I favor a gradated view of life, with as many shades and nuances as possible. All things being equal, the newborn is not the equal of the worker: but the question is whether his potential future worth is more than the current worker's real value.

In the absence of concrete answers, we should speak only of options and possibilities. Coercion is to be avoided - either way: this includes pro-natalist marriage tax rebates, family leave laws, and so forth as much as compulsory eugenics. And the former is a much greater problem today than the latter.

[Meursault]

S.E. Cupp is an appendage of the Religious Right. Her real personality is a non-entity.