Oh, look, you have made the subject how much more cultured you are than I am! My deficiencies in the realm of "well known works of European literature," no less!
It took a true esthete and no sense of humor to manage to shoehorn cultural snobbism into that discussion.
Neocon. This was not a discussion of The Imitation of Christ. It was a discussion of an extract which offered, in its final para, a sentiment with which its poster associated himself on February 10, 2001.
And which final paragraph has, after an exchange or two, elicited your "so what" response to the translation of fundamentalist metaphysics into policy that will result in...
Well, what it will result in isn't really very important to you, is it? Your sympathies lie with those who would make "medical aid contingent on stopping the practice" of abortion.
But wait!
The practice of abortion has not been funded by the US since 1973.
So in fact, the policy is for the sole purpose of gagging physicians. They can not tell a woman, for example an AIDS-infected woman, the implications for her of not aborting, or... no funds for health care or contraception....
And I think the hideously cruel results of that policy make it evil, and you think the fact that some well-nourished Americans "think it's wrong" for a doctor to tell a woman about abortion makes the consequent suffering moot.
It makes me ill.
I'd better meditate. That will make it aw bettah. |
