Now I've Put My Foot in It
On ideology and "sex change," here. (This is the piece I mentioned was coming.)
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Have you seen Bryan Caplan's argument for genetic engineering? He says it's reproductive freedom.
ReplyDeleteI haven't. But I am not surprised.
DeleteAs someone who is pro-choice, it seems like a total non-sequitur. In that case, a person would be screwing around with what the fetus will be post-viability. Then again, a lot of Caplan's reasoning has never seemed totally together to me.
DeleteI do not like the idea of playing God with humanity's genetic make-up. I get the feeling that such genetic engineering would done for the benefit of research or parents instead of children themselves. It's funny because libertarian premises could lend itself easily to a worldview that is okay with the central conflict in The Island.
I've always loved the opening narration from Gone Baby Gone: "I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are. Your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they'd accomplished. The bodies around their souls, the cities wrapped around those."
ReplyDeletePeople who think they can choose everything put themselves permanently at odds with reality.
Good movie.
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