In the same way that the ocean and the land are separate and distinct but no line between them can be drawn accurately - the line between evil and good can be made to disappear by close analysis, scientifically.
It gets even more simple when there are immediate benefits to evil practises. The monsters who inflict genetically-modified crops on the world mewl about feeding the hungry. And it's true, that food is what the hungry need, and as long as we keep the definition of what food is intentionally broad, and disallow the inclusion of its long-term effects, GM foods are, by definition, foods. Therefore anything that increases the immediate supply of edible things is humanitarian.
But a poisoned doughnut is still a doughnut, and if we don't allow the argument to include what happens later the doughnut is food, and giving a dozen poisoned doughnuts to a hungry family is, technically, feeding them.
Cloning and stem cell research are right out of that same Pandora's box.
There will be no line to cross. In a few years the surplus population will be rendered up as food source and the practicality of it will outweigh superstitious repugnance that the old-fashioned feel about eating their own species.
Does anyone believe these creatures when they talk about feeding the hungry?
Yet they keep saying it. The question goes unanswered, why they really want to do this, but it seems clear to me it has nothing to do with human welfare and everything to do with their own, whatever they are. They aren't human. We're living at the crux of a species-split, a fork in the road, and like the line between the ocean and the land, the line between the two paths is blurred and indistinct and impossible to point to accurately except from a great distance.
But it's there. It's here.
Stem cell research is not about healing the sick, it's about amassing the personal fortunes of the researchers, and something far more insidious, the attainment of physical immortality by creatures who were marginal and parasitic until now.
No doubt there are men and women involved in forcing desperate third world countries to utilize genetically modified crops and seeds who believe they're working for the greater good. But that doesn't make it true.
As noted widely this last week, the human footprint on the earth is unsustainable at its present rate of consumption. Do you really think the intelligence behind stem-cell research is devoted to preserving more and more lives? Is that what the human race needs most right now, more people, consuming more?
The God of selfishness isn't in heaven.
It gets even more simple when there are immediate benefits to evil practises. The monsters who inflict genetically-modified crops on the world mewl about feeding the hungry. And it's true, that food is what the hungry need, and as long as we keep the definition of what food is intentionally broad, and disallow the inclusion of its long-term effects, GM foods are, by definition, foods. Therefore anything that increases the immediate supply of edible things is humanitarian.
But a poisoned doughnut is still a doughnut, and if we don't allow the argument to include what happens later the doughnut is food, and giving a dozen poisoned doughnuts to a hungry family is, technically, feeding them.
Cloning and stem cell research are right out of that same Pandora's box.
There will be no line to cross. In a few years the surplus population will be rendered up as food source and the practicality of it will outweigh superstitious repugnance that the old-fashioned feel about eating their own species.
Does anyone believe these creatures when they talk about feeding the hungry?
Yet they keep saying it. The question goes unanswered, why they really want to do this, but it seems clear to me it has nothing to do with human welfare and everything to do with their own, whatever they are. They aren't human. We're living at the crux of a species-split, a fork in the road, and like the line between the ocean and the land, the line between the two paths is blurred and indistinct and impossible to point to accurately except from a great distance.
But it's there. It's here.
Stem cell research is not about healing the sick, it's about amassing the personal fortunes of the researchers, and something far more insidious, the attainment of physical immortality by creatures who were marginal and parasitic until now.
No doubt there are men and women involved in forcing desperate third world countries to utilize genetically modified crops and seeds who believe they're working for the greater good. But that doesn't make it true.
As noted widely this last week, the human footprint on the earth is unsustainable at its present rate of consumption. Do you really think the intelligence behind stem-cell research is devoted to preserving more and more lives? Is that what the human race needs most right now, more people, consuming more?
The energy component of the footprint, dominated by use of non-renewable fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas, increased nearly 700 percent in the 40-year period surveyed, from 1961 to 2001.Those figures, and the rabid demand for stem cell research, and for genetically-modified crops, and the implementation of near-omniscient surveillance technologies, all add up to one dark thing - and it's not the guiding hand of a benevolent deity hiding there behind the curtain, unless you're one of its servants.
The God of selfishness isn't in heaven.
