More Ron Bashing

[Whateverist]

Nothing Christian about it, and certainly nothing "god given".

"God given" here is meant to suggest arbitrary, unsupported and completely fabricated. I reject all moral objectivism. I have no problem with becoming explicit where laws are concerned. You kill someone, we deal with you. We're not necessarily more or less moral than the killer but as a practical matter we're going to do something about that. You want personal liberty but you want to feel safe too.

Me, I want to live in a world that includes more than humans and the biomass that supports us or feeds off us. So as a purely practical matter, I think we should give a financial incentive to any pregnant woman who is willing to have her uterus vacuumed early on. I guess you'd call that social engineering and I'd agree. I just hate to see sloppy social planning where you encourage billions and billions of new humans to be born but give no thought to the resources needed to sustain them or the tradeoff in denigration to the web of life. Here's a Copernican realization for you: we're neither the center of nor reason for that web.