08-13-2016, 08:25 AM
(08-12-2016, 01:47 PM)Beaker Wrote: Maybe people should have to take a parenting/intelligence test before being fertilized....artificially or not.
Yeah, this is a comment that has gotten me the stink-eye for decades, but I agree. You need a license to drive a car, but any maroon can have a baby. Sounds harsh, seems to qualify a "natural right," but the village is impacted every time someone has a kid (or a baker's dozen) so having some minimum standard - such as you are literate and possess the ability to care for yourself - seems reasonable with regard to parenting. Of course, those who hate the gub'mint will call it communism, paternalism, anathema, armageddon, and another reason we should have martial law, but in the end it just makes sense.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
