I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.”
"So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?"
I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.
Tags: sanctity-of-life
I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about a
lot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted to point out how when people
take intractable positions on an issue, and stick to extreme sides,
sometimes the result is a compromise that is worse than either extreme. I
meant it as a wake up call to society -- and to point out that sometimes the
problem IS that we take sides on an issue, when a different sort of approach
is needed. It's also to pose questions about what it means to be alive.
Where does life begin, where does it end -- and point out that there is no
single answer to these questions. The problem is people who think there are
simple answers. People who see things as simple black-and-white
right-and-wrong are the type of people who will end up with a world like the
world in Unwind.
Tags: choice morality social-commentary unwind dystopian sanctity-of-life value-in-a-person
Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it?
- Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)
Tags: life compassion death sanctity-of-life power-of-life-and-death
The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding...
Flannery O'ConnorTags: abortion birth-control sanctity-of-life
What to call it - the spark of God? Survival instinct? The souped-up computer of an apex brain evolved from eons in the R
Ben FountainTags: children sanctity-of-life
..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.
Bill ClintonTags: violence tolerance genocide degradation rwanda human-life sanctity-of-life value-of-life
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