Monday - September 15, 2008
lust for life
pro-choice, pro-life... "pro" is such a dry, intellectual approval either way
Here we go again. Every election season good ole Roe v. Wade rises from the ashes for public approval or stoning. Candidates' fingers stab the air, declaring their position: "I'm pro-life!" or "I'm pro-choice!"
Why does it seem that a pro-life political stance usually includes pro-death penalty and pro-war?
And why does pro-choice seem to ignore that the choice to abort is often made of convenience and not by moral compasss?
What life is sacred to whom? Welfare babies or whale babies. When do those lives become sacred and worthy to protect?
Exactly when "life" begins may be more a matter of faith than debate, but at the very least it can be defined by the reverse of when we say it "ends".
We say it ends when the heart stops beating. No more blood circulating through the body or to the brain. Organs stop functioning. It's not pleasant, but it's very definitive.
Does the soul reside in the blood? Maybe, but that's just too meta-physical to really answer, although WikiAnswer offers plenty of food for thought. But, meanwhile, back to the concrete... uh, blood that is..
So when does that blood first start pumping through the body? Just about the time a woman realizes "Oh shit! My period's over a week late!" That little 4 week old heart is a thumpin! (click on "the time" for animation and color, really!)
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(...and why do all our internal organs look like clips from old horror flicks? does life imitate art or does art imitate life?)
So if life begins 4 weeks after conception, and All Life Is Sacred, then we should all go out and vote however we must in order to protect all the tiny unborn babies, right? Embrace the pro-life platform and all it includes...
To hell with the already born babies in third world countries who are starving to death or hiding in the shadows of political wars. Never mind the lives lost in those wars: the innocent bystanders and righteous soldiers fighting for questionable causes.
Damn the lives of those who have taken other lives. Damn their twisted minds and unforgivable souls. They deserve to be judged by the human scum that they are, they deserve death.
Speaking of scum - never mind improving the "quality of life" for those less fortunate, unless the charity is convenient and tax-deductible. They should pull themselves up by their own damn bootstraps. Adversity breeds opportunity. (Well, it definitely "breeds", that's for sure.)
Never mind the lives of animals, who were put on this earth for food and sport. Shoot more wolves & bears from airplanes so we have more moose to kill on our hunting trips! Burgers just don't taste the same unless they had antlers!
Never mind the life of the earth - rainforests and the global warming myth, pbbb.
What we need is an army of them unborn babies, who we can brainwash from birth, who will owe us their very lives. Lives they will gladly sacrifice for us. In the wars that keep our companies strong. It's the economy!
WAIT A MINUTE! BACK UP!!! You're not PRO-LIFE!
Life is precious... all of it. The good, the bad, the ugly, the poor, the godless. All of it. Your God made it all.
You are not "Pro-Life" anymore than the other side is "Pro-Choice". It's about abortion or no abortion, so just SAY it. Pro-Lifers make hard choices all the time - have sex, or don't. Keep the baby or put it up for adoption. And Pro-Choicers seem to be real bleeding-heart, tree-hugging life lovers.
Then there's the rare species... PRO LIFE, BLEEDING HEART, TREE HUGGING, PEOPLE HUGGING, BIRD-FEEDING, DOG KISSING, GRANNY LOVING, CLOUD GAZING, LUST-for-LIFERS. No party panders to those crazies.
But like Iggy says... it's not just love... "thats like hypnotizing chickens." It's a Lust for Life. It's about passion. (Ironically, the subject of that movie took his own life.)
That's what's missing in these elections, someone for life-respecting, passionate crazy people... a LUST-FOR-LIFE candidate.
