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Obliterating unborn humans does, Chris?
Friday, November 18, 2011
Aborting Children Gives Chris Selley A Warm Fuzzy Feeling
Obliterating unborn humans does, Chris?
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Obliterating unborn humans does, Chris?
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And this is why I am a conservative and not a libertarian.
"An Al Qaeda terrorist is no different from a pregnant female terrorist who slaughters her child."
The order you've chosen there is interesting (and, perhaps, telling).
Machiavelli. Interesting choice of name--I'm assuming this is a choice--especially given the fact that Niccolo Machiavelli claimed that, in order to preserve a Republic, one might need to "kill the sons of Brutus"... I'm speaking, of course, of Lucius Junius Brutus, founder of the Roman Republic. (See The Discourses, Book III, Chapter 3... and Book III, Chapter 2, and Book I, Chapters 16-17).
Machiavelli calls Brutus "the father of Roman liberty" (Discourses, Book III, Chapter 1). And later says that "The harsh methods Brutus employed to preserve the liberty he had won for Rome were not merely useful, but necessary. His example is an exceptional one, with few parallels throughout history: a father sitting in judgment and not only condemning his sons to death, but supervising their execution...Anyone who sets up a tyranny and does not kill Brutus, anyone who introduces self-government and does not kill the sons of Brutus, cannot expect to survive long" (Discourses, Book III, Chapter 3).
Perhaps more relevant to the issue of abortion is the case of Madonna Caterina (Countess of Forli), whose story he considers a "good example":
"Some conspirators from Forli killed Count Girolamo, their lord, and took his wife and small children. Since they felt they could not live securely unless they had command of the fortress--and the castellan would not surrender it to them--Madonna Caterina, as the countess was called, promised the conspirators that if they allowed her to go into the fortress she would deliver it up to them and they could keep her children as hostages. With this promise, they allowed her to enter the place; when she was inside, she reproached them for the death of her husband and threatened them with every kind of revenge. And to show that she had no concern for her children, she showed them her genitals, declaring that she still had the means to produce more offspring" (Discourses, Book III, Chapter 6).
Of course.... all of these "Machiavellian" examples have to do with children (we are, all of us, the children of others) who are (shall we say?) well beyond the "post born" stage.
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