I read an article on forced sterilization in the US of A.Riveting stuff.
Apparently, there were many forced sterilizations in the US from 1929 to 1974, where people that were deemed to be "feeble minded" were sterilized. Now this was in North Carolina, and, as a plan is sometimes better than the implementation, a lot of poor black women were sterilized.
This gave me a lot of wicked thoughts.
Perhaps the plan was not so bad. But in today's everything-goes-society, how would you deem a person to be eligible for sterilization?
Well, dictators could be on the list. Good ol' Bob Mugabe, the wrecking-ball of Zimbabwe could be on the list. I could think of a longish list of crooked politicians and political crooks. Rapists, pedophiles, gangstas and the likes?
But what is the theory? That the bloodline should be eradicated? That the seed sown by the tree will only grow to be like the tree? Surely not. Bankers, and my distaste of them, do not beget bankers. They are trained, not bred. A lot of Christian ministers have seed that grow up to be weeds. A lot of weeds have kids that become ministers.
The point is - can we decide for others? Can we decide that a person should not have babies or not? Is this not what pro-choicers are practicing when they decide to terminate a life?
Well, no answer pops up as yet. But I will add a few to my list, and hehehe over the list like Schmiegel with his ring...
There is a dictator in every one of us.
- Jonah
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