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- From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:46:34 GMT
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- hsims@vax.clarku.edu writes:
-
- I forgot to respond to a few things in the last post so here goes....
-
- [Lotsa stuff deleted]
-
- >>Those poor, homeless and hungry children should have had parents responsible
- >>enough to realize they couldn't afford to feed children. If they could
- >>have controlled their hormones there wouldn't be a problem.
-
- >It sounds like you are blaming poor, homeless and hungry children for being
- >born to parents who's sex lives you don't approve of. They should have had
- >responsible parents? I don't think they had much say in the matter. This
- >is really bizzare.
-
- Of course I'm not blaming the children. Another brainless comment on your
- part. The children should be supported, by forcibly removing them from
- their parents if necessary. You've got to take away incentives to stay
- poor though. These incentives include financial GAINS from having children.
- People who work for a living invariably stand to lose financially by having
- children. These people have children out of love, AND the knowledge that
- they can provide an environment where their children can prosper. People
- on welfare get MORE MONEY for each kid they have. This is what I call an
- incentive to stay poor and have more starving children.
-
- If our ancestors adopted the attitudes of today's society, America would
- still be an English territory.
-
- >>You tell me which
- >>is the worse crime, society refusing to pay deadbeats or deadbeats knowingly
- >>bringing children into the world whom they cannot feed. Would any decent
- >>person bring children into this world to watch them starve? I think not.
-
- >Whether or not these people are "decent", the fact remains that there are
- >millions of poor, homeless, and hungry children in the world. They exist.
- >What do you suggest we do about them?
-
- Americans comprise only 5% of the world's population. We can't be responsible
- for every bloody problem in the world. We took condoms over to some of
- these starving nations and tried to give them out for free, no one would
- take any. We try and send food to these countries with starving children,
- and their own governments, interest groups, or whoever makes sure that food
- doesn't reach these children. What we ought to do is give these starving
- people guns to overthrow their governments. Americans fought for our rights
- in the Revolutionary War. Why should we expect less of anyone else? It's
- the sacrifices of our ancestors, especially our parents, that give us an
- appreciation for our life.
-
- >>And yes, wasteful social programs WILL encourage children to be bums because
- >>they learn by the example of their parents.
-
-
- > .... Heather.
-
- Edward Simmonds
-
-