Ep. 388 - Person Of The Year
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Time named Greta Thunberg their Person of the Year, and I'm mad about it. Also, Portland State wants to teach a course on Queer Ecologies and Environmental Futurity, but they don't have the money to pay for it.
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You probably heard that climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named the Time Person of the Year.
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I have to say I'm frankly appalled, outraged by this choice, because you're telling me that in the year 2019,
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2019, the current year, you're naming a privileged, white, cisgendered person as your Person of the Year?
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Wow. Wow, Time Magazine. Wow. Very progressive choice.
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Reinforce white heteronormativity some more, why don't you?
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Promote colonialistic gender binary paradigms some more while you're at it.
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Just continue with your insinuations that Western cultures are more engaged on climate issues
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while ignoring the literally millions of Vietnamese pansexuals, gender-fluid Ethiopians
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who have been fighting this fight for thousands of years.
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But none of them can be named Person of the Year, can they?
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Oh, no, we're just going to pretend they don't exist.
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Couldn't even find an intersex, aboriginal, genderqueer South Korean.
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Oh, they're not doing anything. No, no, no, no, no. It's all the white people.
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It's all the privileged white people who care about the planet.
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I am tired of seeing the climate activism of marginalized communities erased by the media.
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I'm tired of the media pretending that people of color and agendered people
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and bigendered people and trigendered people and quatragendered people don't exist.
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Time Magazine is a white supremacist publication.
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It should be listed as a hate group by the government.
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And to Time Magazine, in the words of Greta Thunberg herself, I say, how dare you?
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Okay. Anyway, actually, by the way, speaking of woke climate activism, I wanted to, I don't
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know if you've seen this. Check out this flyer that somebody posted online. It's a picture
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of, well, it's a picture of a flyer for a course at Portland State University, courtesy
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of their women, it's their women, gender and sexuality studies department.
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So, you know it's going to be pretty good. Let me see if I can pull it up. I just retweeted
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it on Twitter, at Matt Walsh blog, by the way. Okay, here it is. So, this is the flyer
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for the course. It's queer, it's a course on queer ecologies, queer ecologies, rethinking
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the nature of nature. And then it describes the course.
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This class uses a queer lens to understand bodies, places and the environment. We explore
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how gender, sexuality and queer experience and identity intersect with race, class, disability
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and settler colonialism, to construct bodies and places as natural, and the role that science
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plays in defining nature. Topics include queer bodies, queering settler colonialism, queer
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environmental politics, disability and queer environments, queering science, queer animals.
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Sorry, this is a very serious topic. I don't mean to laugh. I'm really just laughing with
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joy. I'm laughing with joy that finally, you know, these sort of subjects are being
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taught to our children. I mean, for too long, our kids have gone to school and learned about
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things like science and history, and we have completely neglected to talk about queer animals.
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Queer environmental futurity, future, futurity, future, futurity? Queer environmental futurity.
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Well, that's a word. That's definitely a word. This class seeks to reimagine nature, bodies
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and places through a queer lens. So there you go. All I'm going to say is people are going to pay
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money for this course. People are going to take this course and pay money. And those same people,
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given that this is Portland State we're talking about, those same people in a few years are going
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to be unemployed and have massive debt. And they're going to start crying about their student debt and
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demanding that we get, that we give them debt forgiveness. They're going to take out their
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violins and they're going to play them. And they're going to tell us a sad story about how hard their
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life is. Well, if you are plunging yourself into crippling debt for the sake of this nonsense,
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then you deserve all of the consequences that come your way. I paid a hundred grand to take classes
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on queer ecology and vegan history. Now I can't find a job. Help me. I'm a victim.
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Eh, no, I don't think I will help you. I think of, if I were to make a list of all the people in the
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world who, who deserved help, you would literally be at the bottom of it. You would be like number
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7 billion on the list. I think we should help every other person on earth before we help you.
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All right. So our old friend AOC was doing a bit of a grandstanding at a congressional hearing on
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Tuesday, par for the course, her favorite thing to do. And, um, in case, uh, in this case, she was
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grandstanding for government mandated paid family leave. She wants the government to mandate that
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companies give at a minimum, uh, she says three months of paid leave, but she really wants six
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months, nine months, 12 months. I believe she said mandatory. And in order to make that point,
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she pulled out a rather tortured analogy. Do we know how long puppies are allowed to stay with
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their mothers after a dog has given birth? I don't, uh, eight weeks. Wow. So the market has decided
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that women and people who give birth deserve less time with their children than a dog.
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And I think that that at its core has shown that the market has failed to treat people with dignity
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and with basic respect. And so when that happens, I think it's our job as the public to redefine the
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rules of society and to people and to treat people who give birth with the dignity that they deserve.
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Thank you very much. Okay. Where do we even begin here? First of all,
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well, okay. I honestly don't know where to start. I, all right. First of all, there really isn't
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much comparison between dogs and humans. And to compare a human mother to a dog with a litter of
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puppies seems rather dehumanizing to me, but the eight week thing she's talking about, that's the
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amount of time that puppies stay with their mothers until they are shipped off to another family
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generally permanently. So we're talking about at eight weeks, they are permanently separated from
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their mothers. Nobody's talking about permanently separating human mothers from their children.
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Nobody's even talking about separating mothers for, for days or weeks at a time.
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Um, unless the, uh, unless the human mothers are, you know, working for a company that mines
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resources from rocks in the asteroid belt or something like that, and they'll be gone for 50 years.
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Uh, but other than that, they probably come home at the end of the day. So what we're talking about
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is mothers working for part of the day and then coming home to their family. So it's,
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it's really not comparable at all. Second, did you notice how she said women and people who give
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birth? So she couldn't just say women who give birth or really just women. You don't really need the
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stipulation of who give birth, but, uh, she said people who give birth and women to, to, to distinct
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categories. She couldn't just say women, of course, uh, because that's, uh, that this is the sort of
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nonsense that leftist political figures are forced to engage in. They don't believe it themselves. Even
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AOC as, as, as, as empty headed, as she sometimes comes across, I can guarantee you that AOC doesn't
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really believe that men can give birth. She doesn't really think that I, my theory, and I can't prove
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this of course, but I would be willing to bet that almost everybody on the left knows that this gender
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stuff is crazy. They, they know that of course men can't give birth. Of course, your sex is determined
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by your, by your anatomy, your biology. I mean, they know that they have to know it. Everybody knows it.
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Um, I think the number of people who are really confused on the subject is very, very, very small,
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but they all are pretending and they, they want us to pretend also.
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One of the ways that I know they're pretending is I have in many, many times I have engaged with
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these people on this issue and you find that they just have no, if, if you, if you try to back them
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into a corner to defend the proposition that anyone besides a woman can have a baby, they can't even
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begin to defend it and they won't try. They, they, they know that it's a position they cannot at all
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defend yet. They will continue to say it. And, and, and that should really, I mean, why are we even,
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there's a part of me that thinks we shouldn't even be engaging like the left. You've just lost
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everything. You have totally lost every argument. Now, all of your positions are, are disqualified
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because you are claiming that men can have babies. The moment you say that I, nothing else you say,
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I take seriously. And I, because either you are arguing in such bad faith that you are willing
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to propose insanity like that, knowing that it's insanity, which means I can't talk to you because
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you're dishonest or you're insane. I mean, those are the two options. You're crazy or you're pretending
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to be crazy. Either way, what is there to talk about? I can't talk to you about anything.
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And this is one of the, this, this is the problem. This is the divide that exists in our culture these
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days, that you've got one side of the political divide living in a fantasy world. Just live, just
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make, have completely rejected science, biology, all of it out the window.
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And then the third issue here is I can't help but point out that AOC is a pro-abortion radical.
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She believes that it should be legal and is moral to kill a baby five seconds before it emerges from
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the mother's birth canal, the mother's birth canal, not the father's, the mother or the father's birth
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canal, as AOC might say. But that's her opinion, that the child can be, can be killed at any point,
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for any reason, at any point, for any reason before birth, which means that she has lost the ability
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to be taken seriously when she prattles on about dignity and respect. Just like she can't be taken
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seriously when she talks about science, considering the fact that she thinks or pretends to think that
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men can have babies. Also, when she talks about dignity and respect for human beings, we can't take that
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seriously anyway, because, because, because this is someone who, who, who defends the worst kind of
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barbarity. So she has lost the moral high ground. Fourth thing, as for the paid family leave issue, the idea
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that the government should require companies to provide, according to AOC, a year of paid family leave is
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obviously madness. It just doesn't work. So like many liberal ideas, it sounds kind of good at first, if you
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think about it for only one and a half seconds. So if you spend 1.5 seconds thinking about it,
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and you don't think at all about implement, implementation, cost, effect, or anything else,
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then maybe it sounds good to you. If you approach liberal policies, like a word association game,
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where somebody says a word to you, and then you have to react to it instinctively without thinking about
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it. I guess for a lot of people, it seems when they approach liberal policy ideas that way,
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which is how a lot of people approach these issues, it sounds kind of good, because you say,
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well, paid family leave, who could be against that? I'm not against it. I think paid family leave
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is wonderful, but it has to be something employers work out themselves with their employees. The
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government cannot mandate this, because think about it, if an employer is required to pay a woman for 12
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months to not work and to stay at her house, the employer is also going to have to hire a replacement
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who will have to be paid as well. So now for a year, he's paying double for that position.
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Add in, let's say, another woman on 12 months of leave. Why not 12 years, actually? Let's do 12 years.
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Good. Add in another woman on 12 months of leave, and now you've got four times the cost
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for two positions. And keep multiplying that, it becomes unsustainable pretty quickly. Obviously
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unsustainable. Now, the only way that an employer could make this work, maybe, is if when the mother
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goes on that year of leave, he kind of, whatever she does, whatever her position is, he divides it
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up and gives it to other people, other employees. And so her position is absorbed by, and her duties
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are absorbed by other people in the company. The issue with that is, well, if he does that,
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and now for a year, the company works fine with other people doing her job, along with their own jobs,
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then why should he hire her back? He doesn't need her anymore. So in that 12-month period,
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either the employer is paying double, which is unsustainable, or the woman has become
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redundant at her own job because other people are doing it and she's not needed.
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Either way, it doesn't work. Here, I think, is the problem. When it comes down to it,
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in the industrial age, we have radically reordered the family and society. We did away with the
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traditional arrangement of men being providers and women being caretakers. That's the way that
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it worked, obviously, in many societies for many thousands of years. But we said, no, we're not
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going to do that anymore. And now both parents can be providers and both can take turns being
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caretakers. Whatever you think of that shift doesn't matter. That's not my point. My point is
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that there are trade-offs, unavoidable. These trade-offs are inevitable. The trade-off is that,
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one of the trade-offs anyway, is that now, with both parents working, and in many situations,
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I admit that both parents have to work because that's how we've arranged society. We didn't have
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to arrange it this way, but we did. And so now, for a lot of people, it's not a choice. It's like when I
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talk about the public school system, and I'm a big advocate for homeschooling. I think that that,
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or private schooling as well, depending on what private school we're talking about, because
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they're not all good by any means. And I'm a big critic of the public school system. Ideally,
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I think there shouldn't be a public school system, but many families are in a position where they have
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to send their kid to public school because both parents have to work. They can't afford private
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school or there aren't any good ones in the area. And then what are you going to do? There really
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isn't any other option. And I fully acknowledge that, admit that. But my point is, we have set up
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society in such a way as to be dependent upon this institution. It doesn't have to be that way.
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And we could start working in the long term towards making it so that we're not dependent on
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this institution of the public education. We could also in the long term work towards a situation
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where we don't need to talk about 12 months of paid family leave anymore. But those are choices we
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have to make as a society. As it stands right now, with both parents working, children, not just babies,
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don't have the same opportunity to bond with and be raised by and influenced by their parents.
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That's just how it goes. There's no way around it unless we do a radical reorganizing of society.
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Unless we are willing to look fundamentally at how we approach families and work, these really
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foundational things. Unless we're willing to look at that and say, maybe we're doing this wrong.
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If we're not willing to have that conversation, then this is just how it's going to be.
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Folks like AOC, they want to have it both ways. They want to say, oh yeah, women should go out,
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have a career, focus on that. That's what it means to be empowered, is to go out and have a job and all
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that. While at the same time insisting that children shouldn't be deprived of their mother's
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presence in the home. Well, wait a second. How can it be both? You can't say both.
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And why are you? I mean, I joked a minute ago that if you're doing 12 months, why not 12 years? Well,
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really, why not? Because it's not like babies benefit from having their mothers in the home
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for the first 12 months and then don't benefit anymore. That benefit that you're talking about
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extends throughout the entire childhood. So we have made a choice in this society. That's what I'm
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trying to, that's the argument I'm making here. We have made a choice. The choice that we made
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collectively is that it's more important to have the parents out of the house working than it is
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to have them in the house as a constant presence. And, and, and we also decided that other people
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and institutions like the public school system or babysitters or daycare centers can sufficiently
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compensate for and fill in for the parents. That's, that's the decision that society made.
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That is in fact, the, the decision that people like AOC will still defend
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while at the same time from the other direction attacking it. So it doesn't make any sense.
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That's, that's not necessarily, that's not how I feel. I'm not really on board with, with this, but,
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uh, that's the way it is now. And I don't think you can fix it just by mandating some policy.
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And then there's this, uh, the most overrated athlete in America, also the most unlikable,
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Megan Rapinoe, one person of the, she won sports person of the year from Sports Illustrated this week.
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I think it should have been Lamar Jackson that won personally. Now I'm, I'm a Homer, I'm a Baltimore
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guy, so I'm biased. I think Lamar Jackson is, is not only changing the game of football, not only is
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he the, the story of the year in American sports, uh, just electric, electric athlete, a lot of fun
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to watch, but he's also just a really likable guy. He's a great role model. He does all of his
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press conferences after the game, he shows up wearing a t-shirt that says, nobody cares, work harder.
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I mean, that's, that's just the best message you could hope to get from somebody in a position
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like that. And he lives it too. He doesn't, doesn't complain, doesn't make things about
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himself. He's kind of the, he's kind of the anti-Kaepernick in a lot of ways. I don't mean
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that in a political sense. I don't know what his politics are. Doesn't talk about them, which I
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think is great. Um, but just in the sense of he's not making it about himself, he's not complaining,
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lifts his teammates up all the time. I just, I think he's a great, I think he's a great role model for
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kids and he should have been the sports person of the year, but no, we didn't give it to him.
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We gave it to in many ways his diametric opposite, uh, Megan Rapinoe, but during her, her acceptance
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speech, she blasted sports illustrated for not being diverse enough. Watch.
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And while we don't get to choose what it is that we witness, we are the gatekeepers of
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those stories. And we do get to decide how we bear witness to the world around us and
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to the truth that we see. Is it true that I am the fourth woman deserving of this award?
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I don't think so. Is it true that so few writers of color deserve to be featured in this publication?
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No. Is it true that so few women's voices deserve to be heard and deserve to be read in this publication?
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So there you go. I, and I have nothing to say about that other, other than to, to laugh at it. Um,
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this is what you get, you know, sports illustrated. They, they have gone above and beyond to, to appeal
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to the woke crowd. They've done everything they can to woke-ify and it's never enough, never, ever
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enough. This is the lesson we learn over and over again. It's never enough. You can, they are giving
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her an award and she's, she's still upset at them. She's still mad, still somehow persecuted.
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Uh, but so there's Megan Rapp. That's why I really, I, I just, I don't, there are some,
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I think Lamar Jackson, very easy to root for someone like Megan Rapp, you know, going around
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complaining constantly, complaining about her money. That's the worst thing to complain. She's a rich
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athlete going around complaining. She's not paid enough. When in reality, she's actually overpaid
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all this stuff about the women, this sock women, soccer stars, aren't paid enough or underpaid
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compared to the men. Now, when you look at how much money they bring in, in comparison, how much
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money they make, they're actually overpaid and they make a lot of money. Megan Rapp, you know,
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is a rich, rich woman still complains about it though. So this is someone who's just impossible to
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root for. I don't know how you do it. All right, let's go to emails. Matt wall show at gmail.com.
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Matt, this is from Rina says, Matt, why do you have just one stocking on the mantle behind you?
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It's kind of depressing. I do have just one stocking. I don't think there's anything depressing
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about it. It's actually a really fun tradition in my house. The tradition is I'm the only one who
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gets a stocking for Christmas. I'm also the only one who gets presents on Christmas or at any other
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time of the year. So everyone has a chance to really go out, have a great time buying me presents.
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And the good thing is that everyone in the family learns about the value of giving. Now I've already
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learned that value, so I don't need to learn anymore. So I don't need to give, but everyone
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else needs to learn. So they go and they buy me presents. And then it's very sweet on Christmas
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morning. You know, the kids rush down, everyone rushes down to, you know, it's a classic Christmas.
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Everyone rushes down into the living room and then they form a circle. I sit in the middle of the
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circle and unwrap all my presents. Usually it takes about three hours. And the kids are just crying
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tears of joy the whole time. It's a really a wonderful, wonderful tradition. This is from
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Hunter says, Hey Matt, I've been watching your show for a few months now. And although I enjoy
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the show, I'm decidedly more liberal than you on the topic of abortion. You seem very firm in your
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belief that it is an act of evil. Yes, I would say I am over the months of watching the show. This has
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been one of the handful of issues that you haven't been able to sway my position, my opinion on.
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There are two points that always come to mind when thinking about your argument. One, what if I were
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to get my girlfriend pregnant? I'm 19 working on my education. My girlfriend, 18, is getting ready to
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ship out to Air Force basic training in January. A baby is not a part of our short-term plans and would
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undoubtedly destroy both of our plans for life. This must be a concern for many young people and it is a
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very real fear despite taking the proper precautions. I know this is not an excuse for evil, but I would
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not be able to put my personal feelings aside and neither would my girlfriend if I came down to
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abortion. Two, putting aside my own personal feelings when looking at abortion from a statistical point
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of view, is it possible that abortion would help a society overall by limiting the number of single
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mothers and the amount of crimes, so on and so forth? If this was proven to be true, could abortion be
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looked at through the lens of a necessary evil, such as war or allowing AOC supporters to vote?
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Well done. But I don't consider that to be a necessary evil, actually. I would love to hear
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back from you privately or at the end of your show. Keep up the good work. Well, you say that I haven't
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been able to sway you on abortion. I consider that a huge failure on my part considering I talk about it
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so often. So let me see what I can do here. You give your two sticking points. One is you feel like
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you might need to have an abortion, quote-unquote need, to have that option open to you because a
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baby would destroy your plans in life, you say. And number two, you say that it's a necessary evil
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because it cuts down on single motherhood, crime, poverty, etc. Well, I feel like I probably don't
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need to argue against your first point. That's not so much an argument from you, but just you being
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honest about your motivations. I appreciate the honesty. I think I probably don't need to tell you.
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In fact, I know I don't need to tell you because you say it yourself that it's not an excuse for evil.
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Well, it's not. That's the answer. It's exactly right. See, what we're trying to figure out is
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not whether abortion might be useful. I concede that it could be. So if that's the discussion,
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is it useful? I say, sure. Lots of things could be useful. If they were to legalize bank robbery,
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that could be very useful to me. If I'm in a pinch and I don't have any money, I can go rob a bank.
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Now, it's not so useful to the people who get their money stolen or to the bank or to the people who
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maybe get harmed during my armed robbery. Not so useful to them, but to me, selfishly,
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yeah, very useful. Carjacking is a useful option if you don't have a car but don't want to go pay
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for one at the used car dealership. You can just steal somebody else's. Useful for you,
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not so useful for the person who gets their car stolen. Murder can be useful too. I acknowledge
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it can be a very useful tool. Think about how useful it is for the mob when they murder witnesses,
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okay? How useful it is for drug gangs when they kill off the competition. It's a very useful thing.
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The question, though, is not whether it is useful, but whether it is objectively right or not.
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Also, by the way, babies don't destroy your plans in life. They might require an adjustment,
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but there's no reason why they have to destroy all your plans. I have four kids. Now, I'm married and
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I'm older, but I have four kids. I haven't abandoned my goals or my dreams or my plans in life
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at all. In fact, I feel even more motivated to pursue my goals because I have kids. There have
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been chances that I've taken. There have been risks that I've taken, gambles that I've made,
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smart gambles, they turned out to be, calculated gambles that I have made in pursuit of my goals
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that I maybe would not have made if I didn't have kids. But one of my main motivations is to provide
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for them, to provide a life for them and to provide for them in life. And so it all depends
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on your perspective. You could look at having a baby as, oh my gosh, my life is over. Or you could
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look at it as this is a new life that has come into existence. My life has gotten more interesting.
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Maybe there are going to be more challenges, but it's also more fulfilling now. And I've got more
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motivation, more reason to work harder. But let's move on to your actual argument. You say,
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is it possible that abortion could help a society overall by limiting the number of single mothers
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and the amount of crime and so on and so forth? If this was proven to be true, could abortion be
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looked at through the lens of a necessary evil? There's a major flaw in your argument, Hunter,
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and maybe by pointing this out, maybe it'll sway you a little. You'll have to let me know.
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The flaw is this. Everything you just said would just as much justify killing infants and toddlers
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as it would killing the unborn. So let me ask you this. Would you support a campaign
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encouraging poor single mothers to murder their two and three-year-old children?
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What would you think if suddenly across the country, mothers were taking their toddlers
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into bathtubs and drowning them legally? Now, this would undoubtedly help the mothers financially.
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Also, let's face it, some of those babies are going to grow up and become criminals.
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Some of them are going to grow up and end up on the welfare system. And so we've dealt with that
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problem by killing them. Of course, some of them may also have grown up to be philanthropists and
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teachers and surgeons and doctors and soup kitchen volunteers. And so you've wiped all them out too.
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But certainly there are going to be some future criminals in that bunch as there would be in any
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random group of children. But what would you say about that? Again, it is justified using the exact
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same argument you just made. Exact same situation. It's not like this is unprecedented either.
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Infanticide has been practiced in many cultures throughout the world and throughout history.
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So what would you say? I'm guessing you would be horrified. And why? Because you realize that
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these pragmatic considerations could not possibly ever, ever, ever justify the mass murder of innocent
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children. And further, you realize that any societal gains made through efforts like that
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are not even close to being worth the cost. You realize that if killing toddlers helped us become
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a richer society, that would not be a compensation for the fact that we have forfeited our souls.
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We are a richer society, but also a very evil one. And you realize that if all this death and
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bloodshed would make us wealthier as a society and more comfortable, then in that case, it would
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be better to be poorer and less comfortable. So when you look at this situation, I'm assuming you would
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say that if this is the only way, I'm assuming you would say you would rather be a poor country
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that doesn't kill toddlers than a rich one that does.
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And if I'm right about how you would feel about two and three-year-old children being drowned in the
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bathtub in mass, then all I'm asking you is to take that logic and apply it to the unborn. And then you see
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how your argument, though pragmatic and practical, is totally off base.
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Because it completely ignores the moral consideration here, which we cannot ignore.
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And if we get to a point where we're saying the only thing that matters is whether or not this might
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practically help some group of people, if that's what we're saying, then we have just invited in
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all manner of the worst kinds of evil you could ever imagine.
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Thank you for the email, though. And thanks for listening and keeping an open mind, as they say.
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Dear mighty and powerful leader, I recently started working at an office with an open floor plan
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and low-walled cubicles. Yesterday, a co-worker microwaved canned tuna for lunch. The stench
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permeated through a large portion of the floor and lingered for 10 to 15 minutes. I searched my
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immediate surrounding area in order to hopefully hand down a swift punishment, but found nobody eating the
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tuna. Therefore, the smell came from outside a 10-foot parameter or made its way all the way
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through a break room 50 feet away. Under your regime, how would this individual be punished for
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this vile assault on my olfactory nerves? My first thought is a twisted version of eye for an eye,
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and they'd be stoned to death with cans of tuna, but I would like to know your official ruling.
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I have so many questions, Joe. Who microwaves tuna, first of all? That's just egregious. Bringing tuna to
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work in the first place is unacceptable. It's like if someone took their shoes off on a plane,
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which is bad enough, but then stuck their smelly, disgusting, hairy feet right under your air vent
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overhead so that the stench is wafting directly into your nostrils. That's the kind of thing,
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if a person does that on a plane, the air marshal is going to arrest them and throw them out of the
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plane at 35,000 feet. I'm pretty sure that's the law. What I would say with your suggestion,
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you say stoning them to death with tuna cans, I find that pretty inappropriate and shocking,
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honestly, that you would suggest that because the cans aren't going to be hard enough, I think,
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to actually bludgeon someone to death. What I would suggest, this might be a little impractical,
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my penalty, I think, would be bring them out to the ocean, capture a real tuna fish. Those things
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are pretty big. Bind them to the tuna fish and then let the tuna fish drag them into the dark
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depths of the ocean. That's my first thought about how we would handle that, but certainly,
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some practical concerns there, I think, as a matter of justice, that would certainly be the
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most just way to deal with that. I'm sorry that you had to be assaulted in that way at your place
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of work. And then we've got a bunch of other emails, but I think, you know what, we're going
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to wrap it up there, and maybe I'll save some of these other emails for tomorrow. Again,
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