In a fit of compassion, I’m going to move talk about me away from Brett’s post and to this one. In particular, Darwin Catholic made a claim that we don’t often correct people’s comments here when they dissent. I’m also going to address comments regarding the pro-life movement more generally.
I’ve grown out of the habit of responding to comboxes. I generally respond only if the argument is so poor that it will provide me brief entertainment or if I have an intelligent rebuttal to an intelligent argument. Darwin will often fall in the latter category. If I don’t respond, I agree with the argument, find the argument non-responsive to my discussion, or find the argument so poor that I would be spending half a day making corrections so that each side could get to an intelligent point. I have transitioned to attempting to persuade others with my arguments and not my interlocutors.
In plain truth I’m not a supporter of the pro-life movement, and I think I’ve made that clear in various ways. That doesn’t make me some cryptic abortion supporter. Such a person wouldn’t have written this, something that many contributors didn’t agree with and still don’t agree with. All sorts of people in the pro-life movement were falling all over themselves to show their compassion. For the most part, it was a cheap and easy compassion to give. That pretty much typifies the movement today. A bunch of cheap and easy enemies are made up because the real problem of abortion is a difficult one politically and one not solved with cheap slogans and easy answers. So organizations prey on people’s insecurities managing to enrich themselves (or at least provide themselves a living, although it shouldn’t be discounted how much many of these people make off the unborn), give their supporters the security blanket of having cared, and do nothing toward actually ending abortion.
Unlike many of the people you see commenting, I don’t have a fiduciary interest in the movement. My self-importance isn’t wrapped up in what I have done for the movement. I have no loyalty to the movement. That bothers a lot of people. I’m sorry but you are going to have to look elsewhere to get your validation. The movement isn’t doing a whole lot of good. Having me say that doesn’t mean much. The movement is going to have to realize that itself. That will require setting aside some sacred cows like the belief we are in this mess and the way out it through the Supreme Court. Almost every first world country has legalized abortion. Our Supreme Court didn’t cause that. Abortion was already being legalized in the legislatures when the ruling came down. Politically, efforts to significantly restrict abortion in places where it is allegedly unpopular have failed. I didn’t make that reality. It isn’t a reflection of my preferences. If that makes you uncomfortable, your problem isn’t with me.
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