http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/469317,CST-CONT-danger15.article
First off, I’d like to recommend the above article. It is quite amazing and is an introduction to Steven Pinker’s latest book: What’s Your Dangerous Idea, in which he questions the top experts in different fields of scientific study about their “dangerous ideas.”
Such as that legalized abortion is good for the economy.
On to a next topic:
The people who support a cause
Many people say that you can’t judge a cause by the people who support the cause. I disagree here. I think the people who support the cause can give a very good indication of what the cause is really about.
Take the evolution vs. creationism/Intelligent Design debate. Over the years, there have been many attacks on evolution. Physical attacks even, and death threats, such as this one:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/07/professors-in-c.html
I have not taken the time to search for any fundamentalist activities by evolution proponents. Most, if not all, of them just continue with their lives. Some of them make webcomics, blogs or write books telling people why intelligent design is stupid. This is, as far as I know, the most they have done.
*ahem*
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=4f1456031fcc05a3afaf&page=1&viewtype=&category=md
*ahem* (read the opinions below the video.)
Then there’s the abortion debate. The pro-choicers say that people should have the freedom to choose to have an abortion. The pro-lifers choose to say that no one may have freedom to choose. This is, as I have highlighted, slightly hypocritical.
Pro-lifers rally in the streets, as they have the freedom to do, to take away a portion of freedom. Some of them go far enough to bomb abortion clinics, kill doctors and nurses and hold people hostage. I have not heard about a single pro-choicer murdering people in the name of dead babies.
And, closely tied in with the abortion-debate, there is the death penalty. People who are against “the murder of babies,” are commonly in favour of the murder of full grown intelligent people. Even more shockingly, many of them are also in favour of the murder of full grown retarded persons.
Pro-choicers (or baby murderers, as the pro-lifers make them out to be), on the other hand, are commonly against the death penalty.
There’s not much more I can say is there?
I like to look at all possible aspects of a situation, and the people who support the cause is one of the integral parts.
Communism vs. Capitalism is another issue. Capitalists give people the freedom to prosper or diminish. Communism gives all people the same treatment and wishes for everyone to be content. Both are good ideas.
Unfortunately, most known communists use violence, exploitation, lies and sometimes even genocide to keep communism going. This is not really necessary in the case of Capitalism. Communism is still a good idea, but once you start to think about it, which communists don’t seem to do, you realise that it is not very practical.
Also:
http://www.johnkyrk.com/evolution.html
The above link is curious. Try it out.
