Saturday, 27 December 2008 Today's Battles [Zoe Brain]

[Hazumu]

A.E.Brain

They [LGBT] can only be described in a purely ecological sense as human-created vermin, though that word in merely implied, not stated. Something undesirable and dangerous to the Ecology, the product of Humanity's prideful nature in wishing to be in sole and exclusive control of his own destiny. He does not go so far as to say that such (purely ecologically speaking, no pejorative meaning is implied) "vermin" should be exterminated, he leaves the question of what to do with them open. He merely states that they are a danger to all Humanity, and against the Natural order as ordained by God.

*sigh* No Dog Whistling there, is there?

Yes, this does contradict both Matthew 19:12 and Isaiah 56:3-5, 1500 years of Theological contemplation of Intersex, including the arch-conservative Peter Cantor of C12, as well as most of biological science. It returns us to the days of the Church's founding, and the Emperor Constantine, where Intersexed infants were sealed in boxes and cast into rivers as being against God's Creation. It was recycling the material of defective products to be remoulded into perfect ones. Ecologically sound practice, that's all.

(Emphasis mine - =K)

[soldierjane]

Ah, the simple solutions of old. I wonder what mother had the heart to do that to her baby though. Unless it was like the Sparta baby-toss and it was done by unscrupulous, patriarchal men.

Had never heard of that particular practice though, will have to look it up

[Hazumu]

...I wonder what mother had the heart to do that to her baby...

Nature/evolution provides for that.  It's called postpartum depression.  If the kid's a runt and ain't worth 2+ years of the mother's resources because it won't be viable, chuck it.  Without the lactation/nursing to suppress fertility, the mother becomes ready for another go quickly, and better luck next time.  The postpartum depression (typically lasting two weeks) provides the objectivity unclouded by maternal attachments.

Do women who off their sickly infants do so without emotional regret,  NO!  But they are able to maximise their contribution of viable offspring to the next reproductive go-round.

None of the above assumes medical science.  That's happened only in the last evolutionary blink.  We're still stressing over stuff that made sense to stress over in way-back time, but not in modern today -- and conversely, we haven't yet learned to stress over the stuff that can get us in modern life.

Karen