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@myth_pilot Idealistic portrayal of one’s godlike form coming from a race of super artists
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Hard unromantic realism coming from a race who mastered the world
If you're gonna do the humanity overcoming nature shit you can't frame it in terms of the endless quantitative increase of human biomass. Like accept that IVF kills living human beings, say it doesn't matter, and then we can all be very Promethean.
More than 13 million children have been born via IVF. As a technology, it is one of humanity's great moral miracles, one of its greatest triumphs in the battle against the vagaries of Nature. Because of IVF, kids who never could have otherwise been born exist. Because of IVF, parents who in a darker time would have been consigned to infertility with the faint, cloying desperation of longing and hope can now raise families. And yes, because of IVF, gay men and women can, like straight parents, work to build and raise their own families.
Because make no mistake, what Lomez is recoiling at and advocating for others to recoil at doesn't stop at his disgust towards gay men. Human reproduction is a difficult, thorny process. In natural reproduction, most embryos fail to implant, fail to develop. And yes, in IVF, people make and freeze more embryos, each one representing a potential life, each one representing hope, and watch as the vagaries of nature take hope away repeatedly before—if they are lucky—one embryo develops and becomes a child.
The disgust Lomez asks you to feel is a disgust at each parent who refuses to accept the constraints of Nature, at each person who is so determined to bring life into the world that they pay with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of time to see it happen, at the doctors and the scientists and the whole process that continues to expand the potential for the miracle of life.
I like to hope moral persuasion is possible here, but inasmuch as it is not, I know where I want to stand: on the side of parents and prospective parents doing the best they have with the hands they're dealt, working to bring children into the world and raise them well. And if doing so requires working to ensure people like Lomez never have enough power over me to wrench me to their will?
So be it.
Russia threatens to nuke an American city like once every 6 months — they designed nuclear torpedoes specifically for nuking the American eastern seaboard. At least the Israelis don’t do that!
The “academic agent” is now using the Grover “Stalin Did Nothing Wrong” Furr books to do pro-Soviet revisionism bc he thinks Jews made us hate them; he’s voting for Corbyn; he’s blaming the Kentler Project (named after Nazi-raised gentile Helmut Kentler) on Jews; etc… All today!
Ok yeah we get "Uhhh I want to sodomize Gavin Newscum's 14 year old daughter in the face" cool you don't have to keep repeating it we all know and some agree.
you're a lying Whiggian, American chattel slavery was an Infinitesimal Ultrahumanistic classical liberal trifle, you're making the same over-incremental logico-rationalizations that globohomo Massachusetts State Church of New England used as noetic cudgel to retroconverges all