Sunday, August 09, 2015

Not every human female who wants to should be allowed to bear children...

It should be an explicit part of every national government's governance to determine how children may lawfully be born, to whom, and how they are to be nurtured, cared for and educated, once they have been brought into existence.  Children deserve no less.

So, yes, bullshit aside, the first thing that must be determined is the prospective female breeder's physical and (so far as it can be evaluated) mental fitness to bear children.  And yes, those judged unfit should be sterilized. 

Secondly, the physical and mental fitness of the proposed sperm donor must be objectively evaluated; if judged unfit, and heterosexual (i.e., likely to reproduce if allowed to do so), potential sperm donors ought also to be sterilized.

Thirdly (the first two pre-conditions having been satisfactorily met), with or without the participation of the child's parents (though, of course, hopefully, with), the birth, nurture, care and education of the child will  be supervised, regulated and provided for by the state.

Every pregnancy being thus provided for, protected, and in fact made possible by the state, abortions will be permitted only in cases of medical necessity--never at the mere whim of a prospective mother who's changed her mind.  After all, in my experience, life does begin at conception.

6 Comments:

Blogger Vincent said...

A modest proposal, methinks, by Dr. Jonathan Swift the Second. It describes a land called Anatole’s Caliphate, where Lemuel Gulliver found himself shipwreck’d. There he discover’d a Tribe called the Caleban, Or Talleyban, who wore towels on their heads and ran farms in which they bred Slaves, said farms being the most hygienic, organic and veterinarily inspected in the eighteenth-century world.

Their king explained that these slaves, who as in ancient Greece were not part of his proud democracy, especially the women, had defective instincts in the rearing of their young. They were best raised as domestic animals, where they could be given the best strawto lie upon and winter’d o’er with the best provender. Furthermore they were monitored from birth to culling, lest their Dams and Sires fall below the standard originally judged acceptable when they had been given their Certificate of Breedworthiness.

While the king was thus proudly explaining his earthly paradise, Gulliver could not help noticingfrom the corner of his eye that some of these creatures (Yahoos? he hadn’t quite caught the word), who looked indistinguishable from human beings on a London street, were ingeniously scaling the high fences of their encampments, and making a rush for the shore, whence they rowed and sailed away with the greatest urgency, though overloaded to an extent that they were nigh foundering.

Gulliver was on the point of questioning the king as to how this behaviour fitted within the ecology of his realm, but when he turned around to face His Excellent Majesty, the king was nowhere to be seen. With a start, he awoke to find himself in bed, at home. It was another of those post-traumatic nightmares he’d been having ever since his rescue from the Country of the Houyhnhnms.

10:53 PM  
Blogger anatole said...

Gulliver's Travels--I really should read the whole thing some day. "Best raised as domestic animals" is very near my own thought.

12:08 AM  
Blogger Vincent said...

Yea verily, but who shall ye find worthy of the husbandry thereof?

1:30 AM  
Blogger anatole said...

Et quis custodiet ipsos custodes? That's what democracies and Academic degrees, i.q. tests, physical fitness evaluations, and civil service examinations are for. Selection by these criteria couldn't be worse than the existing arbitrary and random allotment of the ownership of children to parents without any consideration of their means, capacity or fitness to be parents.

1:03 PM  
Blogger Vincent said...

Much of this already flourishes mightily in England, beloved of the Socialists and called by the rest "The Nanny State".

Or if you prefer, there is a more Biblical model, (I Kings, Chapter 3) where justice is delivered to two mothers and one baby with a sword. That's assuming that degrees and IQ tests etc etc are sufficient to produce social workers with the wisdom of Solomon.

9:34 PM  
Blogger anatole said...

Sorry, I don't see the appropriateness of the citation from the Book of Fools. Could we just not?

1:50 AM  

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