Thread: Dear Left Wing Fundies, do you really advocate Infanticide? Board: Oblivion / Ship of Fools.


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Posted by Stoker (# 11939) on :
 
This is aimed at a school of thought which I've picked up on since the death of Mrs T and has been vocalised by several public figures.

It goes along the lines of "87 years too late" etc...

The logical conclusion of this hateful, cruel and sad argument is that a little baby girl called Margaret born to a Methodist preacher in 1925 should have been subject to Euthenasia.

So the question is, who decides? What criteria do the right-on, politically correct socialists who hate all oppression use to select their infant victims?

Just saying..........
 

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Posted by Stetson (# 9597) on :
 
Oh for heaven's sake. My father, generally a right-winger, used to mutter about the left-leaning Canadian PM Trudeau: "That guy should be taken out and shot."

I didn't sit around fretting that my dad was a serious advocate of killing people for their political opinions. It's called hyperbole. It can get tasteless at times, to be sure, but most sensible people learn to distinguish it from seriously held opinion.
 

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Posted by Gamaliel (# 812) on :
 
Stoker, you're embarrassing yourself in front of everybody.

I'm embarrassed on your behalf.


 

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Posted by Belle Ringer (# 13379) on :
 
I doubt anyone means that literally.

For one thing, no one can look at a baby and know if he or she will turn out to be politically conservative or liberal, or a mass murderer, or a great inventor, or a normal everyday person.

With decades of hindsight, one might "wish someone had killed Hitler in infancy", or Pot Pol, or Idi Amin, yes?

It's a expression of opinion that this person's life work has been so destructive to so many, millions would be better off if s/he hadn't lived - or of s/he had chosen a different line of work, like painting art or dressmaking.

Occasionally there is an attempt to affect the future by killing targeted infants - rivals for future king position - but that's because the baby's future position is known at infancy.
 

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Posted by ken (# 2460) on :
 
Why is this vicious and insulting bit of dishonest trollery in purgatory and not hell where it could be answered in kind?
 

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Posted by Gamaliel (# 812) on :
 
It's not worth a Hell-call, ken, it's so dumb-ass that it isn't even up to that standard.
 

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Posted by mousethief (# 953) on :
 

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Originally posted by ken:
Why is this vicious and insulting bit of dishonest trollery in purgatory and not hell where it could be answered in kind?

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