To Life
Andrew Sullivan on this week's Real Time with Bill Maher:"`The culture of life,' I might say, is a phrase invented by the last pope. And what it meant was, you're opposed to death in the death penalty, in war....in euthanasia and abortion. The Republicans decide, 'Oh, we're a cafeteria [style]. We'll take the abortion and euthanasia but we will launch wars' and we will...I mean, George Bush has signed more death warrants than any other human being in this country."
The Republicans aren't the only ones being inconsistent in their stances toward "life" but President Bush does seem way into that phrase ("culture of life") but doesn't really go all the way with it, what with the bombs and wars and stuff. Man, quit executing people!
posted by PositiveMode @ 6:16 PM
1 Comments:
what's the difference between republicans who advocate a "culture of life" but support measures that cause death (e.g. capital punishment and wars) and democrats who oppose capital punishment and wars but support abortion? if anything, i think the republican position is more defensible. one might say that the woman's right to be free of the burden of pregnancy makes a difference, but that's generally something she could avoid with greater discipline. whereas death row inmates have been convicted of crimes that society has determined warrant execution, and wars are, at least in theory, intended to remove a threat and further the greater good. the republican positions are not necessarily inconsistent, and it's disingenuous and hypocritical for many critics to demonize them (and in many cases that's what they're trying to do) for taking those positions.
Post a Comment
<< Home