A story that turned my stomach
Apr. 4th, 2006 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fpbWhat does this story have in common with the fact that the same country routinely murders the old and the sick and has recently approved the murder of disabled children?
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/946
Obviously, that human beings are being treated not as an end, but as cogs in the wheel of whatever it is that their rulers want (which the creature in question defines with admirable clarity: "capital"). Bear in mind that the creature's party not only did not even try to stifle her outrageous suggestion, but actually lined up behind her. Is Holland even worth spitting on if it was on fire?
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/946
Obviously, that human beings are being treated not as an end, but as cogs in the wheel of whatever it is that their rulers want (which the creature in question defines with admirable clarity: "capital"). Bear in mind that the creature's party not only did not even try to stifle her outrageous suggestion, but actually lined up behind her. Is Holland even worth spitting on if it was on fire?
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Date: 2006-04-05 12:54 am (UTC)One of these days you're going to lose it and really let everyone know what you think. (I heard this quote differently a few decades ago.)
I wouldn't worry. People who don't work and have children don't have much money to pay fines, and I doubt the first Mom carted away from her wailing children for non-payment of loans will go quietly. She'll probably have a PhD in Marketing and Communications.
What are they doing to the ones who flunk out of Dutch schools without even getting degrees? Make them be MPs?
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Date: 2006-04-05 06:00 am (UTC)Yep. But I cannot be sure that, if I ever found it on fire, I would happen to have a full bladder. 8-)
Seriously, that was a nasty thing to say. But that country, or rather its ruling classes, has been making me sick for years. Euthanasia and forced abortion are common. To me, the very essence of democracy and Christianity both is that the people, individually and collectively, are not a mean but an end. And not even Christianity only. Confucius once visited a great city. His disciples asked him what should be done for it, now that it had grown so large. "Enrich its inhabitants," the sage answered. "And after that?" "Educate them." The inhabitants are the purpose. "To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavour" (Samuel Johnson).