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LydsBits #1: The true role of the social safety net

Idea courtesy of Camille Paglia

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May 17, 2022
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(Note: This is the first of what I’m sure will be many shorter posts comprised of brief ideas without enough substance to warrant a full post, in my estimation at the time of writing.)

“I say the law should be blind to race, gender, and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected group of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose frailty demand society’s care.”

It deeply bothers me when pro-abortion ideologues say that children born with handicaps and deficiencies would be better off dead than living with those hardships. Camille Paglia, intriguing role model that she is, summarized the idea of society protecting those who are actually vulnerable nicely: In a sufficiently-advanced, wealthy culture, there is no excuse for putting those who seek special privileges on a pedestal while at the same time utterly ignoring truly frail members, actual victims of hardship, predation, and time, through no fault of their own. Worse than ignoring these true sufferers, though, modern American culture wants its elderly out of sight and out of mind in nursing homes, and its most deserving, innocent members (unborn children) actually dead.

It’s a stark sign of cultural decay how a civilization so wealthy could be so callous to the ones who need help the most — and I do not refer here to citizens who chose to have families out of wedlock, not to graduate high school, or to use harmful substances.

The most deserving of help are those who have no voice, firstly, and those who are naturally weak, not those who have a loud enough voice to silence others and draw attention to themselves.

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Chris Bertman
Writes Chris’ Newsletter
May 17, 2022

I’ll say it a million times, it wasn’t the pro-life crowd that made me change my stance on abortion. It was the pro-abortion crowd.

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Louis Bruno
Writes thereallouistbrunos Newsletter
May 23, 2022

If the case, as you said, "children born with handicaps and deficiencies would be better off dead than living with those hardships" it's a really flaccid case. As someone who was diagnosed with late stage Aspergers syndrome, it's laughable that people have the nerve to decide who is God or not. If I was aborted, no one would have been able to read my work or see the achievements I have made for myself. Without Elon Musk, we wouldn't have had PayPal. If being disabled is part of what makes creative people push new ideas to the forefront, this casts a dark shadow on the pro abortion argument. Maybe they are in favor of eugenics more than they realize? Thoughts?

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