Flesh is not Flesh

                I was discussing the recent death of a patient with one of our doctors at work and to conclude she stated, “Flesh is flesh.  It really doesn’t matter if it’s road kill or a patient here in the end there is no difference.  Flesh is flesh.”  To which I responded, “Except its not.”  The doctor simply was expressing her atheistic worldview and it disturbed me for some time, this even though I would have stated something similar for the same purpose five short years ago.  Conversions change us deeply and that is why I am writing on this topic.

                  Flesh is not flesh.  There is a difference between human beings and animals.  The doctor is a vegetarian but her argument would justify cannibalism.  Why?  Because as much as she wants to elevate animals what she is actually doing and all she can do is dehumanize human beings. 

                Feminists stated they wanted to be like men, but they chose the worst men to want to be like.  Animal activists can only want humans to acknowledge they are animals but that news won’t cause animals to stop eating each other; animals can only be what they are- animals.  Feminists and animal rights activists believe in lazy virtue, they may call it natural virtue but there is nothing natural about virtue.

One cannot be freed of constraints sufficiently to simply create a virtuous individual.  Virtue is the product of sufficiently constraining oneself.  Human beings are the only creatures capable of such an unnatural feat and most of them are not even game for the effort.

People instead desire justification for their own misguided actions.  Bullies have no virtue and that is why they are bullies; but their victims are not conferred virtue by their victimhood.  Many victims themselves become bullies because they feel they have earned the privilege via their own awful experience.  My own experience could be cached in this niche, although my preferred method of revenge has been words bile not sweetness was the fuel.

We justify ourselves, we know too well our justifications.  We lose our empathy in those justifications and we dehumanize our victims.  Just as we make sexual objects we make straw men of every form and so animals seem an innocent receptacle for affection and they become greater than humans for many.  The truth is however they are not; nor are they less than living creatures, they are what they are- animals.

The answer is not projecting a perfect human nature upon animals but acknowledging our own tendencies toward selfish justification and regaining our empathy for other human beings.  For we and they are similar except in the fact that we excuse ourselves and demonize others.  The answer is mercy.

Mercy is the fuel of virtue.  One cannot turn the other cheek unless one realizes that the first strike is never justified and so the answer is not weakness but strength in highlighting that difference, to turn the other cheek.  We must do what is good and elevate the world rather than doing what is justifiable in our own misguided hearts and bringing the world down to a justifiable hell.    

Flesh is not flesh.  There is flesh which has the potential to be more than that and that is our human potential.  It would be unfair to chastise a cat for killing a mouse but it is always tragic when a dog kills a child.  The answer should be obvious but only to a human being.

Feminism is Dead: Abortion Ratios Based upon Sex

                Saul wielded his sword in battle and that would ultimately be the cause of his death as he committed suicide with it, this is where the expression “falling on your sword” comes from as this is what Saul did.  Abortion was supposed to be the tool of feminism but as abortion has systematically and ever increasingly been used to kill unborn girls feminism has fallen upon the sword of abortion.

                Angie Murie, executive director of Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region in Canada, said:

“I wrestle with gender-based abortion more than any other reason.  From a macro perspective, I don’t think it is a good idea for us to be eliminating women.  But if you look at it at the individual level, which is what we do, I don’t have any right to say that one person’s reason is better or worse than another’s.”

                I am reminded of a saying about a forest and trees.  It is easy to pick on China as they are the greatest offenders by far.  The most distorted districts in China are over 150 male births to 100 female births, but I see this picking up throughout the world and the statistics are bearing it out, even in Europe.

                The answer is easy we live in a culture that is guided by what’s trending now.  Its soft power versus hard power and soft power will leave hard power in the dustbin.  China’s hard power approach has destroyed a large number of girls, but the people know in their hearts that what they are doing is totally devastating.  What is far more effective is the whisper at the dinner party, “Oh poor dear, maybe she couldn’t afford the test.”  Thus a willful disregard in nurtured in the heart and one feels none of those nagging objections of a well formed conscience.  One simply sees oneself and the desires of one’s heart.  Ah, how romantically devastating!

                One can see the disparity in countries very clearly not based upon religious piety or even party politics but economic growth and planned families.  Nearly half the world falls into an unnaturally male biased ratio, which is greater than 105 male births to 100 female births.  The world sex ratio for 2005 to 2010, as determined by the United Nations, was 107 boys to 100 girls.  This has left a calculated disparity of 32 million females throughout the world. 

I imagine these females were quite relieved at being dispatched as being female is apparently equally meriting as incest and rape in abortion consideration.  If they could speak they would thank us!  Thank us for being saved the apparent indignity of being born a girl and thus Feminism is dead in that it makes it unthinkable to value girls equally as it is only a matter of taste to do so. 

Is being Pro-Choice Sexy?

                Is being Pro-Choice sexy?  Planned Parenthood thinks so as they have asked twitter users to pass on a message which states just that, “Pro-Choice is Sexy!”  Is being pro-choice sexy?  The answer is… Yes!  Wait, what?  No it really is sexy.  In fact it not only really is sexy; it is really sexy. 

                Why would I make such a statement?  Because it is true; both of these options limit a woman’s ability to actually be a woman.  A woman may be the object of sexual desire and thus objectification but a woman may not be fully a human being.  A woman may be the object of sexual interest but she has no right to sexual stability, men don’t care.  If a woman teaches a man she wants to have sex like he does and society at large guarantees any repercussions of any of this sexual expression can be chopped up and thrown away.  Women are teaching men not to care.

                Men haven’t even had to ask for these indignities feminists have insisted upon them.  Women have fought for their rights only to have the right to say I do not wish to be respected; I wish to be found sexually desirable.  If women wish to race men to the bottom they will lose and lose big!

                For the sexually assertive woman has the right to one expectation and that is that everything will go well because sex is good in and of itself.  When the woman is crushed by losing the afore mentioned race to the bottom she has no recourse as the dogma she has followed allows only two basic rights: 1) to kill her innocence, 2) to kill her innocent.

                Pro-Choice is very sexy indeed.  God save us.

Victoria’s Secret is not just her Underwear

                Tonight the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is televised on a major network and that makes me so sad.  I am sad for the women of the world and especially little girls.  I am also sad for men nobody expects anything from you and you shrug and admit you are a proud stereotype with no desire for integrity or heroism.  The race to the bottom picks up velocity because of shows such as the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

                The Girl Scout Research Institute (GSRI) put out finding of a study they had done in which 1141 girls’ age 11 through 17 were asked about reality television and their resulting perceptions.  Girls who watched these shows rated the importance of appearance higher than those who did not.  78% who watched thought gossip was normal in female relationships as opposed to 54% who were not frequent watchers.  68% of those girls surveyed believed it was “in girls’ nature to be catty and competitive” compared with 50% of those who were not regular viewers.  63% of watchers found it difficult to trust other girls as opposed to 50% of non-viewers.

                I bring this study up to highlight how impressionable our girls are.  In a different study by GSRI entitled, “The New Normal?  What Girls Say about Healthy Living, 2006, 1/3 of girls 8 to 17 have a disordered idea about their weight and “23% of girls say they do not participate in sports because they do not think their bodies look good.”

                So those who believe that this show is a positive expression of encouragement to girls really have not dug into the figures to support their views; because the figures do not support those views.  Just the opposite in fact the impression left on girls who need exercise is I am too fat to get involved and the message sent to girls who do not need to lose weight is this is an appropriate way to get attention. 

The other side of the coin is the male side; men allow themselves to be further convinced that the objectification of women is an appropriate and wanted form of interaction.  So we see a synergy of dysfunction emerge; women and girls seeking attention inappropriately and men giving them attention which is inappropriate.

The resulting depression and heartache is then placed at the feet of the “morality bigots” of the world, because we make things so repressive, instead of shows such as the Victoria Secret Fashion Show.  I pray we see through the smokescreens and defend women and especially girls who deserve a healthy and loving future.