An open warning

[fpb]

To anyone who might feel like defending abominations such as baby-murder and the State murder of the old and sick: be reminded that this blog is my space. I decide what goes in and out; and while I allow all my friends to say what they think or feel, I will not, on principle, leave in any defence of what I regard as crime. If you want to defend crime, do it in your own space and don't bother me; all you will get otherwise is deletion and banning.

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Apothetae

[johncwright.livejournal.com]

Bravo and thank you. We are living in the culture of death, and you are right to be bold enough to say so.

My son survived the abortion holocaust. The doctors told me to kill him, on the grounds that he might develop a spinal malformations. He was born and is healthy, one of my life's best joys.

Is anyone here a fan of the Spartans? Here is a Lacedemonian practice in this regard, according to Plutarch:

"Nor was it in the power of the father to dispose of the child as he thought fit; he was obliged to carry it before certain triers at a place called Lesche; these were some of the elders of the tribe to which the child belonged; their business it was carefully to view the infant, and, if they found it stout and well made, they gave order for its rearing, and allotted to it one of the nine thousand shares of land above mentioned for its maintenance, but, if they found it puny and ill-shaped, ordered it to be taken to what was called the Apothetae, a sort of chasm under Taygetus; as thinking it neither for the good of the child itself, nor for the public interest, that it should be brought up, if it did not, from the very outset, appear made to be healthy and vigorous."

Re: Apothetae

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You might like a look at this essay of mine: http://fpb.livejournal.com/69029.html. Among other things, it touches on the Classical attitude to "exposure". (Isn't it interesting how they always have to find a euphemism to say "killing unwanted babies"?)