re: #209 zombie

We’ll have to agree to disagree, then.

Personally, I think the abortion issue is not only irrelevant, but it’s actually even a subset of a larger issue (sexual freedom, and “What message do we send our kids?”), which is itself also irrelevant, considering the problems facing 21st century America.

My personal opinion is that abortion is mostly a stand-in which disguises the real topic of discussion, which is: Should society encourage woman and girls to be promiscuous? Leftists want to keep abortion legal specifically because they want sex to be without consequences. (This is also why they’re so outraged that HIV hasn’t been cured immediately by the medical community. HIV means that sex can have consequences, which is driving the Left crazy). THe ultimate goal, if you bother to read the underlying texts of leftist philosophy, is to break apart the nuclear family, to help usher in a Total Social Revolution.

The far-right, on the other hand, want to suppress the free expression of extra-marital sexuality, according to their religious/moral principles. Banning abortion is one to to enforce that — by ensuring that each individual sex act can change your life forever (i.e. give you a child).

I have mixed feelings about the underlying moral question (total sexual freedom, total sexual repression — or something in between?), hence I have mixed feelings about the political manifestation of that issue (abortion). Personally, I’m leaning toward “something in between” as our society’s stance on sexual freedom (e.g. encourage and reward monogamy, but allow promiscuity if someone so chooses), but it seems there is no middle ground allowed on the abortion issue by ideologues on either side.

Meanwhile, capitalism is collapsing (and being intentionally pushed toward collapse by our own president), Islamic Extremists are trying to establish a Global Caliphate, socialists and communists are solidifying their grip on power … and here we are, arguing about condoms.

I think you argue against yourself a bit when you rightly suggest that the left would like to destroy the nuclear family and then seem to imply that the issue is not worthy of political discourse here:

Meanwhile, capitalism is collapsing (and being intentionally pushed toward collapse by our own president), Islamic Extremists are trying to establish a Global Caliphate, socialists and communists are solidifying their grip on power … and here we are, arguing about condoms.