DAN SAVAGE: Population control. There's too many goddamn people on the planet...Sometimes in my darker moments I am anti-choice. I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.
http://jkdinale.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/QA-TRanscript-episode-40-Nov-4-2013.pdf
This will be the third time I comment on his statement. Like some B movies, it's so bad that it's good (in a terrible way):
i) Even on his own terms, his position is counterproductive. If there were a 30-year moratorium on having babies, aging sodomites would lose their supply of buff young men to service them. They'd be stuck with other aging sodomites.
ii) Many people, when they hit middle age, wax nostalgic about their youth. And when they see young people, it triggers wistful memories.
They may envy the young. But older folks don't normally resent the young for being young. They usually assume a generous attitude: "I had my turn, now it's your turn. Hope you have as much fun as I had at your age."
But not for people like Savage. Here we see how aggravated sin erodes common grace. He duplicates the jaundiced view of the antinatalist: "Unless I'm happy, no one should be happy!"
His best years (such as they were) are behind him, and that makes him begrudge the younger generation. They have what he lost–what he can never reclaim.
Every person has to make a plan for old age. Plans that work would be "serving God" or "having a marriage and family".
ReplyDeletePlans that don't work:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/fashion/the-life-and-death-of-the-therapist-bob-bergeron.html?pagewanted=all
It's amazing that a lifestyle that is so obviously self-destructive is nevertheless so celebrated and endorsed.
DeleteIt's hard to imagine the same glowing appreciation would be afforded to Christianity if, as a direct result of its tenets, its adherents were at significantly increased risk of contracting various horrible diseases and as a group had exponentially higher rates of both attempted and successful suicide.
What a strange way to defend the godless life. "I have chosen atheism over christianity and BOY AM I MISERABLE"
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