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Junior Chimp
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« on: May 17, 2013, 07:53:54 AM » |
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He is not a "monster", he is not an "animal", he is not "slime". He is a human being. Accept that the sort of things done by Gosnell are well within the human capability for cruelty and depravity. Call him what you like, think what you like of his misdeeds, but you do not get to expel him from the human race for what he has done.
On the one hand, what does that say about how we conceive of and treat real-life animals? That we think of them as brutal, mindless killers? That they deserve no more respect or fair treatment than our worst criminals?
On the other, who else do we get to forcibly divest of their humanity, either rhetorically or in physical fact? Do we really want to do that as a society?
There are aspects of human-ness which are foul, pernicious and embarrassing. But referring to them as being possessed by "sub-humans" or "animals" or "slime" represents a failure to come to terms with them. In some measure they are ours, too.
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