Sanctity of Life
Enough. The bullshit on this topic just gets piled higher and higher. What is this term suppose to mean anyway? Obviously it means different things to different people. Is life precious? Is oxygen precious? Is food precious? I think they all are. What does right to life even mean? Each egg and sperm, do they have a 'right' to life? Wait a minute, they are already alive---except in the beginning when God created the Evolutionary process or created man unto His own image and other life forms unto I don't know whose image---however one chooses to believe. Life since then has been a continuum. Life and Death are facts of the evolutionary process so let's not throw around nonsensical terms such as sanctity. I guess God doesn't believe in the 'sanctity' of life or death wouldn't exist. What decides which sperm unites with which egg? God? Chance? It certainly isn't the egg or the sperm. It certainly isn't the parents. What is God doing here, letting a roll of the dice determine who gets to exist and who doesn't? Humans always tend to invent a God who looks human, thinks human, and of course uses inherited religion to pass on His commandments to his chosen by birth disciples. It is very important to choose your parents carefully if this is the case. I mean it is a matter of life after death or going to Hell.
I look at these Abortion protestors and see an ocean of ignorance, disingenuousness, and illogicalness. For a start, who the hell is pro abortion? I have never met such a person. Some of these sanctity of life characters are even against birth control. At least here they are consistent. It really doesn't make any difference consequence-wise if one uses abortion or birth control---a particular individual 'person' will never exist because adult humans made that decision---ignoring, I guess, the sanctity of life. Now let's stay a moment with this logic. If you decide not to marry someone, you in effect, with that decision, have, with disregard to the sanctity of life, ensured that certain sperms and eggs will never fertilize and lives that could have been will have been denied by your disregard for the sanctity of life. Of course this kind of mentality is absurd.
When these emotional nitwits are screaming about the sanctity of life, they only mean human life, and then only certain human life. They certainly aren't concerned about the massive extinction rate of plants and animals going on because of human overpopulation. Strange, but with such a long, millions of years, history of evolution having gone on, the only species entitled to this sanctity of life is the human species, and then only certain members of the human species at that. In other words, these right to lifers have decided they are the deciders of which life has this sanctity. I wonder on what basis they get to be the deciders? Everyone is entitled to religious beliefs but it is another thing for any group to insist some must obey the religious beliefs of others. That is pretty obnoxious, pretty self centered, and to me, a bit delusional. It is the time honored question---"Who made you God?"
I claimed these abortion protestors were disingenuous. According to those agencies which specialize in saving children who are dying of treatable diseases and conditions, the cost to save each child is around $200. Thus, I would like to know how many of these abortion protestors have put up their own money, and how much of it, to save these children dying from treatable diseases and conditions. Then I want to know how many times these same protestors have held protests against those who have not contributed anything to save these dying children. This sanctity of life, how much of our own money should each of us be spending to save these children? I don't think too many of us better get too hysterical about sanctity of life. We could, if we wanted to, find many times over $200 to save these children. We could, if we wanted to, adopt children.
I too, like everyone else, believe in the sanctity of life. That is why I believe strongly in responsible reproduction. No child should be bought into this world if they are not wanted, or can't be properly cared for. Even the Humane Society is careful who they give a pet to. They don't squawk away that life is precious and then hand pets to anyone who wants one or even worse insist anyone who doesn't want one should take one anyway as some sort of sanctity of life binge. And of course, the Humane Society believes in responsible reproduction so much so that they encourage neutering pets. Funny here, the Humane Society seems more genuinely concerned about the sanctity of life than the human pro-lifers. That term itself is oxy-moronic. Like who are the anti-lifers?
The pro-lifers take the same position at the other end of the life spectrum. A few functioning cells and organs, in their mind, constitutes some sort of irrational sanctity of life dogma. People are, by law, forced to exist non persona, sometimes for decades, when the person has long since become nonexistent. Whether it is Alzheimer's disease, a stroke---whatever---and whether the person wants to die or not, is of no relevance to these pro-lifers. If medical science advances enough maybe we can have bins of functioning cells and organs stored away, of course labeled so we know who each body is, and the funeral industry can be eliminated. You want to see Grandpa? He is in bin #3856 on the third floor behind a glass screen so you get a good view of his still functioning cells.
In the end, what does sanctity of life really mean? According to God's created evolutionary process (my belief) individual lives have no sanctity, only importance. Death of individuals is built into the system. Any real sanctity of life refers to the continuum of life, the fact that life never really ends but gets passed on, generation after generation, with subtle changes---and these changes cause life to evolve in ever changing ways---ways controlled by evolutionary laws---and these changes generate ever increasingly complex organisms. We may desperately want God to be our Protector, kindly meddling in our lives to make our lives better and save us time and time again from misfortune, but there is really no evidence such is the case. In fact, the best amongst us can be dealt the worst of fates and we see that happen all the time. ON THE OTHER HAND, were it not for this amazing God created evolutionary process, none of us would have had the chance to exist, the chance to have a good life. That is exactly why responsible reproduction is a serious human responsibility. The goal should be for every child to have a decent chance for a good life. To bring children into a world in which a parent is unable, for various reasons, to be a good parent, to be unable to financially support a child, is cruel. Overpopulation is cruelty taken to a high level and is not only cruel to all children, but to other species as well. There is sanctity of life---on the grand scale---not centered around individuals in any species. Only humans have the mental capacity to comprehend the Golden Rule, the basis for ethics. All else is just window dressing and irrelevant to ethics or religion.
Next time I see some pro-lifer squawking in the street I will feel like grabbing him/her by the neck and squawking myself: "Look Bozo, take out your wallet and start saving some of these children who are dying from preventable diseases and conditions, go adopt a child, go vote for politicians who want the same amount of money spent to educate EVERY child, to provide proper health care to EVERY child, to demand every country find a way to make responsible reproduction the law---and then, only then, can you have the logical right to preach about the sanctity of life." Until then, if I want any shit out of them I will squeeze their head.
Having completed this tirade clearly Obama is right. This kind of demonizing one side or the other does not promote any solution. He is right that the differences are irreconcilable. Humans are what they are---humanisque. Tis' a pity. Evolution needs to speed up quickly before we destroy ourselves.
