Thursday, April 10, 2008

Do we have a right not to be born? The answer to this question is urgent because people, especially women, seem to think that having a baby is a birthright without regard for consequences. To question this is to be accused of eugenics and of being a nazi but noone is talking about the right of babies. A woman in Australia has knowingly had a baby with her own father. A woman in the US took treatment to look like a man but retained her womb and ovaries. He/she then married a 'normal' woman and has now become pregnant probably by artificial insemination. It was grotesque and nauseating to see a creature with a full beard and in a state of advanced pregnancy. In India poor people have lots of children they cannot afford to feed so that they can send them out to work and live off their earnings. It is not because they are naive or helpless but as a deliberate act to live off their own children's labours. Politicians pander to this by giving ever increasing handouts in the interest of getting votes. Also having a huge uneducated underclass dependent on the mercy of politicians makes them easy to exploit. The end of the world, if it happens, will not because of ideological difference over 'isms' but because we might be traumatising the next generation so much that they might just want to end the whole rotten mess once and for all.

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