Um... Wat.
Well. If all the extra illegal babies in China are being left to die or thrown down wells and stuff anyway... does this really make much of a difference ethically?
I don't generally find this to be that disturbing. As @
niffer said above, what is the alternative? They're generally going to get incinerated or rot in the ground anyway. Why not microwave them and grind them up into a delicious powder and make money off their little corpses?
I actually laughed when I read the article. I mean, lol'd right out loud. It's just insane. I almost thought I was reading something from The Onion. If it's true, that's unfortunate and my HOPE would be that they're not just slaughtering babies for the sake of the powder but I have a feeling that in a lot of places babies are discarded pretty readily.
When I was eating my breakfast this morning I was thinking about whether or not I could take these capsules and I don't think that I could but I don't think I'd be upset with anyone else for doing it.
I would be more upset if the babies were being murdered for this purpose.
If they are dying naturally I'm a little more open-minded.
Mostly, I'm freaked out about all the dead bodies in caskets in the ground.
That is unnatural.
I would never ingest these pills however because likewise I do not know
what this child died from, if it died from a communicable disease, what it
was being fed, etc...
I'm really not sure what to do with dead things. Burning them is horrible for
the environment, ingesting them can be dangerous, burying them seems the
best option but again anything that they've ingested that is toxic will be
left to leak into the earth, burying them in caskets eliminates natural decay, etc...
Hey guys,
sorry in advance for sounding like mrs reverend lovejoy- think of the children!
Would it bother you more if this was happening in the nation you lived in or your own neighbourhood?
I absolutely understand that there are probably millions of people, including babies and millions of animals dying everyday for pointless and avoidable reason. And theres a lot of people that dont get the luxury to die and just have to suffer with so much needless abuse and tolerate the destructive actions of other humans and their warped cultures through their sad lives. And if we thought about all this all the time it would become so overwhelmingly sad we would go crazy.
It something that I thought about a lot in the 'would you kill a puppy thread' (yes, i spend too much time thinking about these things). Just because its happening everyday, and we are all involved in it and it seems too complicated to fix doesnt mean we shouldnt try. We can't change other people but we can change what we do. The people involved in this practice (or other baby/people killing practices) arent bad people, they are just ignorant, caught up in their own cultural values and cultural institutions. But just becomes its already happening doesnt make it any better of justifiable.
Just another way, a different way to create more self destruction. The trippiest and most wonderful thing about humans and culture is that is is generational.
There is every possibility that the next generation of humans will be more evolved provided we do the groundwork for them. There is no problem in the world that can not be fixed because of this. And our cultures are just collective human conciousness, made up of all our indiviudal conciousness. There are streams and currents of conciousness of patterns of schemas, ideologies and philosophy that flow through this collective. This means that there is always reason for hope and infinite possibilities in the direction we can evolve, both as individuals and collectively as cultures. Indifference, apathy, and loss of hope happens when we cant see the possibilities anymore.
The shit we do to ourselves and each other is horrific, and thinking about it is so tiring and draining. I do sometimes wonder if everything I have tried to do has been pointless because it seems there is always just so much destruction and I just feel helpless. It terrifies me that I have brought a child into this world. Sometimes I get so frustrated, angry and confused because I no longer remember what the point is and why we are subjected to all this. It would be easier if it just ended why do so many of us have to suffer. But the only enemy here is culture- our collectively ignorance and the anti-human, anti-life beliefs of most of the world, and our own fear. We can move past this with unconditional love and acceptance. It can change and it will change. We just cant afford to give up