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Richard Dawkins suppors infanticide

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  • More context here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-HjA_7OUog [youtube.com]
    Still indefensible.

  • "???" means I could not parse the words at that point.

    The scary parts are in ALL CAPS.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-HjA_7OUog [youtube.com]
    Title: Dawkins and Singer on infanticide

    Richard Dawkins: In the abortion debate people sometimes say, it is absolutely crucial when the embryo can first feel pain, and they look at things like the development of the nervous system. What I've always felt about that is that no doubt it's true that we should worry about that, but a human embryo when its nervous system has just develop

    • Like the Left pretends that there are basically no differences between men and women (except artificial ones, imposed by the former, patriarchal culture), they pretend there are basically no differences between man and the animals ("pigs share 98% of human genes!"). So what we've learned from this part of the discussion is that it's not about species, but about age, and situational awareness, and who's the more "sensitive" being. Oh, and the "seriousness" of the decision to kill.

      This all means not only is e

      • Politicians of the future literally will eat babies. Because just kissing them is not the socially responsible and eco-conscious thing to do. Their courageous forward-thinkingness and forward-eatingness will serve as a model to all for saving that carbon footprint and inflicting one less destructive parasite on the blessed Mother Earth, the one who gave us life and nurtures us all. The EPA will run PSA's: "Go green; eat your young!"

        Animals are my friends, not my food. But babies? Delicious! They're so tende

        • And to think that these "intellectuals" consider common people to be "toothless hicks" and worse...

          • Actually I find that snippet to be fairly intellectual; nuance is included and things are reflected on and ramnifications are preliminarily weighed. Far from what you get from the sheer masses of sub-intelligent Leftists that are the vast majority here (the kind that the site owners attract and stoke). This is moronville, but those two are no morons. They just share the same strong preference for siding with evil as their lesser brethren here do.

            The racism and hypocrisy behind "hicks" and other such terms i

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