Sunday, April 24, 2005

Eugenics...revisited

So... I talked to Gina about eugenics. (She's the girlfriend I spoke of earlier; the one I persuaded to like debate.) She accosted me about how heartless I was, and using well placed comments, got me "chasing my own tail," and eventually got me to dissuade myself. I still think eugenics would be a good idea from an entirely utilitarian point of view, but I'm a Christian, so that's not the only thing I have to consider.
Our calling while here is to glorify God with everything possible. And that includes zygotes. Raising a family in a godly manner is a very important way of glorifying Him. If that was regulated, I think Christians who weren't allowed to have children would be called to disobey that law. In addition, and at a more fundamental level, a major point of Christianity is the fact that we are all impossibly weak and imperfect, and will never be up to the task of fulfilling God's standards. (That is, the law; the Ten Commandments and all the other commands in the Bible.) With that in mind, we are forced to rely entirely on Jesus' sacrifice. He did everything. So our weakness, in this case, is an obvious and unavoidable fact, and it's somewhat presumptuous for some of us to choose who to let continue in a genetic sense when God is going to make all Christians perfectly glorifying to Him, at the end (all non-Christians too...). So; go forth and multiply!

**Note: Here's a pet peeve of mine about post-Modernism; the apparent need to prelude all opinions with "It is my opinion...." or some other equivilant phrase. You know that all of what I just said was my opinion because I said it. I didn't quote it, I didn't cite it. So if it offends you that I didn't explain that it was my opinion, get over it.

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