Fundie and RC alike espouse an ideology which is pro-birth at any cost. Modern pronatalism is a dogma of social darwinsim — actually created by Herbert Spencer.

It should be obvious that pro-birth is *not* pro-life. That ideology is pro-Death — creating disease, poverty and ignorance worldwide through overpopulation, damning safe non-reproductive sex, and blocking responsible medical research.

Humanity today has safe and effective means to control conception. Problems which are population dependent — global warming, access to water, adequate food . . . will be eased by lowering populations intelligently rather than letting malthusian remedies take their course.

There is no need for looking to science to draw some sort of demarcation criterion for fetal viability. There is no need to alter existing concepts of a person which function in developed countries.

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Movies aren’t novels. The novelist is limited only by his imagination and in this computer age the amount of free space on the hard drive. Novels can be a thousand pages or more, follow dozens or even hundreds of characters, and infinite plotlines. Novels are meant to be read over the course of several days or even months. The pace is entirely up to the reader. He or she can go back over and over to re-read anything they have missed.

Movies are rituals. They are meant to be consumed in one sitting. Movies must be models of efficiency. They are restrained by very practical concerns. They have a maximum of 4 hours to tell their stories, limits of budget to create their fictional worlds, and limits of casting to create characters. The best movies are the ones that actually manage to operate within those restraints through streamlined stories, imaginative use of limited sets and props, clever, thoughtful writing, and solid acting. Great movies aren’t made by randomly throwing images on the screen or ballooning up to fit in every idea that the director has. That’s not creativity that’s just wasteful.

I really do not think that particular passage applies anymore. Like we have said, humans are not exactly in short supply anymore. I do belive in God, but I also belive in common sense, which says that, even if He did give that command we pretty much achived it decades ago.

What kind of treatment centre guarantee to cure any alcohol problem? There isn’t even any cure for alcoholism, and if a cure comes it’s more likely to be in the form of a pill.

Yes, severe psychical problems are treated with ECT, that’s wrong with that? It’s effective, fast working, and it has few side effects. And than did drugs become a problem in psychiatric care? It’s a life and death situation, a patient with delusion can for example commit suicide or even murder. Now then we actually have treatment, why not use them? Doesn’t the loving god want us to be healthy? To deny patients drugs, is to act like those doctors who laughed at Ignac Semmelweis and his crazy idea that doctors in obstetrical clinics should wash their hands.