Guest Post by Eric Peters
That the recent elections tilted blue – that is, red (it’s interesting that the party closest to overt Marxism isn’t the “red” party) isn’t surprising because the basic tenets of Marxism have become vehement givens for both parties.
Neither opposes income or property taxes – both central dogmas of Marxism. They merely bicker over how much.
Question this – ask why anyone ought to be forced to pay either – and you’ll be met with vehement umbrage from both reds and the blues.
But the issue that defined – or rather, foreordained the outcome of – the recent elections is the general vehement agreement that life doesn’t matter. That it is disposable, when inconvenient. If the life of a baby is disposable, then how much is yours or mine worth? How you “stand” – ugsome word – on abortion (the ending of life) is almost beside the point. The point is that if any life is cheap, then life is cheap. Put another way, if any of us lack the right to life, then our right to not be robbed (i.e., “taxed”) stands on pretty flimsy ground.
It is no wonder we’re taxed extravagantly, at every turn. It’s a miracle we’re not taxed out of everything we earn and thought we owned. It is no wonder people are treated with contempt – and treat others with contempt. That the most basic civilities are passing away.
This is an inevitable etiolation of the disease of regarding human beings as things whose value can be disposed of by others.
Isn’t that what abortion comes down to?
The “right” to dispose of life is premised on the assertion that it’s not a life. That it is a thing. This is of course absurd because it’s self-evidently false. But it is convenient. One can argue for the disposal of things and not regard oneself as a thing. We all take out the trash; get rid of things we don’t want or need.
They are, after all, merely things.
Once this attitude hardens, people in general come to be regarded as things. You are not threatening your neighbor with murderous violence – demanding he hand over his money that he earned (and you did not) because you think a government school or some other thing requires him to provide funds to finance it. You are just voting to “increase funding” for “the schools.”
And if he were to refuse – if he were to resist – you would not be appalled to learn he’d been killed for resisting. Many would say it was justified.
This is what comes of regarding others as things – as property to be disposed of.
The GOP’s losses reflect the fact.
As a matter of practical politics, the GOP – as in Virginia – might have done better than losing control of both houses if it had not dared to broach the subject of treating life as a thing to be disposed of. Evidence is persuasive that having broached it in the meekest, almost apologetic tones cost the GOP control of the legislature, now under control of the blue – that is, red – party.
It might have won had it left that issue alone.
But we all lose, regardless – because we’ve all become things to be disposed of. We have no rights that are bound to be respected because things do not have unconditional rights. Things are allowed certain privileges, perhaps – and always conditional.
Just the same as the conditional right of a developing child to live, provided it is convenient.
Else just dispose of it.
This is not an argument in favor of banning abortion. It is an appeal to conscience. Without the latter, the former will always be a loser. In order for that to change, people’s minds – and hearts – must change, first.
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The masses seem to prefer slavery over freedom. This will change when man has a spiritual awakening. It’s never a whole society. But a personal choice.
Abortion? That’s what you are talking about? We are way beyond that now.
It seems to me that the reduction of new life to the status of a “thing” has its root in our diminished faithfulness. A demoted life is the symptom not the disease. When society’s members forget that this life was created in the image of God, we slowly reduce its status from a divine gift to a choice.
#RepealThe19th
Until that happens things can and will only get worse.
Only male property owners should vote. No skin in the game and you cannot play.
Does this mean Virginia is now blue?
Nah, just the legislature.
Abortion laws are a cancer in the republican party, the American people don’t want it, they will never want it, and in so far as republicans succeed nonetheless, they’re specifically pumping out people who hate republicans and hate America. Genetics matter. The people who don’t want children usually have valid reasons for those beliefs, and furthermore, overwhelmingly lean towards the genetics of carelessness, stupidity and impulsiveness, which is unsurprising seeing as they’re highly sexual but don’t use any birth control.
I’m already not impressed with the “but killing people is wrong” argument, which of course, seems to magically disappear when those people happen to be third world muslims but, it grows particularly absurd when said “people” have no memories, have no drives except a few very basic inbuilt instincts, can’t put together a sentence for the life of them, and are completely unaware they even exist. The main reply I tend to hear is how these “people” are four dimensionally human because they can become human. To this I reply that the same applies to apples, and in fact, all matter can become human, given the according time and resources.
In so far as killing is actually a bad thing that people shouldn’t do, it’s because memories are valuable and we can’t extract them and back them up, because people can do fun things that are worth existing about, because everyone wants to dominate the gene pool and we’ll end up focusing all of our efforts on reproduction and slaughter if we don’t recognize the inherent cooperate defect dilemma and find a way to get along despite the obvious advantages if we slaughtered them, but they didn’t slaughter us back.
None of this applies to infants. Infants have no memories, they aren’t enjoying life, at least not at a level past that of any of those animals that we’re perfectly willing to slaughter for a tasty snack, and they have no ability to coordinate and slaughter us in turn. Killing infants is completely different from killing your neighbor down the street or bombing third worlders halfway across the planet, this is obvious, and it really tires me how republicans pretend that they can’t see the difference.
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
–Ronald Reagan
As is everyone who is against abortion.