Acceptable Worlds
At virtually the same time that we heard the interesting news from South Korea about their ability to produce stem cells through cloning techniques, news teams rush to hear the president's predictable thoughts on the advance:
I worry about a world in which cloning becomes acceptable.
The fool pisses me off so much that I don't care about having an interesting discussion about ethical issues. This isn't about ethical issues with these people anymore, it's about slogans from cereal-box "religions" that pretend to have deep, spiritual roots. This much we know, certainly, although a few of us who haven't taken our mind-relaxing drugs today still stand in slack-jawed amazement at the respect that the majority of people will still afford these stupid slogans.
To be honest, I don't lie awake at nights worrying about a world in which cloning becomes acceptable. Instead
- I worry about a world in which routine torture of suspects becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which CEO's making 700 times the wage of their workers becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which hatred of other Americans as a way to raise campaign money becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which a president can start a war without reason becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which fixing social security by destroying it becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which restricting women's reproductive rights becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which condoms are kept from teenagers lest it encourage sexual activity becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which liberty traded for pseudo-security becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which the notion that American Christians are persecuted becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which election fraud becomes acceptable.
- I worry about a world in which lying from our government becomes acceptable.
Clearly, my list is far shorter than it could be; let's just try to think of it as representative, the merest tip of the worrisome iceberg.
Regardless, it's more than enough to keep one awake at night, without even worrying about a world in which cloning becomes acceptable. Oddly enough, all these things that I worry about could easily be fixed, if people just had the vision and the collective will to put a stop to them.
Unfortunately, that all of these are acceptable has become acceptable, and I find that unacceptable.