Jeremy Piven-in-Grosse Pointe Blank voice: “Twenty years, man. Twenty years.”
From February 15, 2015, “Painful nonsense“:
This is nonsense. Literal nonsense of the Lewis Carroll variety, albeit far crueler. Appling is telling us that “most of the people who have ever been born” have never been born.
The word “born” cannot bear that. It will not allow itself to be used and misused in this way. We cannot make people who have never been born a subset of people who have ever been born. Neither language nor logic will allow it. …
What does it mean, then, for either set of parents to be soaked in an ideology that does not allow any distinction between those things? What does it mean for them to be held by an ideology that insists they’re not allowed to respond to such different kinds of pain differently?
This ideology ladles cruelty on top of cruelty. It kicks people when they’re down. It’s pastoral malpractice. And that’s far too high a price to pay for the kind of nonsense that refuses to see any difference between all the people who have ever been born and all of the “people” that have never been born.
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