29 March 2005
Final Solution to the Obesity Problem - NOT TRUE!
This was linked from the Emperor Misha and I had to read it twice AND go to the original story before I could accept that this wasn't a Scrappleface type satire.
QUESTION: What if this was being done for, say, people with a measured IQ below 75? What would the reaction be? How's about drug addicts? Homosexuals? (Never mind - they already decided themselves that they are biologically unfit, which is defined in terms of passing their genes on to descendent generations.) Who decides what is acceptable? And by what standard? The Nazis had some ideas about that. Who's to say they are any more wrong than anyone else's concept of acceptable normality.
Once the boundary of respecting innocent life is breached, there is no fixed boundary, and literally ANYTHING becomes acceptable, assuming that a sufficient political power can be accumulated to hold the gun barrel and force compliance.
FLASH! Got burned by manufactured fake news site - ooops! Only consolation is that apparently I was not the only one! Oh well, live and learn - but I already know enough to admit a flub-up, unlike CBS news.
QUESTION: What if this was being done for, say, people with a measured IQ below 75? What would the reaction be? How's about drug addicts? Homosexuals? (Never mind - they already decided themselves that they are biologically unfit, which is defined in terms of passing their genes on to descendent generations.) Who decides what is acceptable? And by what standard? The Nazis had some ideas about that. Who's to say they are any more wrong than anyone else's concept of acceptable normality.
Once the boundary of respecting innocent life is breached, there is no fixed boundary, and literally ANYTHING becomes acceptable, assuming that a sufficient political power can be accumulated to hold the gun barrel and force compliance.
FLASH! Got burned by manufactured fake news site - ooops! Only consolation is that apparently I was not the only one! Oh well, live and learn - but I already know enough to admit a flub-up, unlike CBS news.
