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By: saint

saint — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:00:02 +0000

And skepticklawyer, why this terror of people having babies is beyond me. Frankly there is also some measure of incoherence about people who bleat about reproductive choices on one hand (I note as usual, it get’s thrown to the woman, the man bears no responsibility and has no say), and carry on about overpopulation/too many babies on the other…or even *snort* pretend to worry about other people dying.

By: saint

saint — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:54:45 +0000

Somehow I imagine gilmae was right.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:54:54 +0000

Maybe abortion is baby killing. Maybe making it readily available means that not only fewer babies, but also fewer other people die.

/Utilitarian libertarian exits, running backwards over sand.

By: gilmae

gilmae — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:36:13 +0000

Somehow I imagine saint was equating abortion with baby killing.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:16:31 +0000

Re the tiger sign. They could have saved money, materials and verbs by just printing up a sign that says “If you hassle ‘em, you feed ‘em.”

I remember a great warning sign at some UK Zoological Park’s elephants’ enclosure.

“These animals weigh more than your car and don’t have your sense of humour. So be please be on your best behaviour.”

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:07:24 +0000

“It seems Tim Dunlop is manifestly determined to replace Philip Adams and Tim Flannery as Australias looniest lefty.Frankly any person who wants their Government to actively fund other countries to kill their own children is not quite sane in my view.”

This may come as a quite a surprise to you saint but Tim Dunlop is not really alone here. There are many other people who believe a woman has the right to manage her own reproductive systems. It’s not like birth control is a complete novelty imposed by Government fiat in civilised countries or anything.

But let’s suppose for a giddy minute that your hyperbole that unthinkingly equates free frangers with baby killing does have some vague basis in reality. Isn’t ita good thing then that we’re stopping all those pesky third worlders from breeding like minks and so draining the carrying capacity of a planet manifestly destined for the likes of those that like to tell others what they can and can’t do with their own biology?

By: saint

saint — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:39:59 +0000

*Sigh* It seems Tim Dunlop is manifestly determined to replace Philip Adams and Tim Flannery as Australia’s looniest lefty. Frankly any person who wants their Government to actively fund other countries to kill their own children is not quite sane in my view.

By: haiku

haiku — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:18:28 +0000

A propos of nothing, “goad” appears twice in the “Do not … the tigers” sign. And to think they could have used “pwn” instead …

Thanks for the daily dose of Missing Link!