‘If I were the mother of a suffering child – I mean a deeply suffering child – I would be the first to want to put a pillow over its face… If it was a child I really loved, who was in agony, I think any good mother would.’
This goes to show that no principle of civilization, no precept–no matter how holy, authentic, or certain–cannot be twisted into the service of evil. Murder as an act of love.
The statement above is that of UK television pundit Virginia Ironside. The video below shows the entire exchange.
October 5, 2010 at 11:30 am
Do NOT let her anywhere near my brother with a pillow. Without? Fine. She'd have to get closer and thus give him a chance to run her over with his wheelchair.
October 5, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Straight from the Nazis:
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/33d05/33d05L07Eugenics.htm#h2
Dasein ohne Leben concludes with the wise-looking professor looking straight into the camera and saying "I'd want someone to kill me too…"
October 5, 2010 at 12:49 pm
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October 5, 2010 at 12:51 pm
I was so outraged, I snarled big time. My son has Down Syndrome. I worked with handicapped, truely handicapped non verbal cerebral palsy and/or autistic children. Smothering as LOVE? Please. You can call it anything you like, it's still murder, it's still evil, it's still sparing yourself being uncomfortable, yourself being forced to serve, yourself being made to love someone you view as imperfect and therefore incapable of being loved, at least by you.
October 5, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Monstrous.
October 5, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Your last line in the article notes that statements like this still have an ability to shock the listeners. Not for much longer. The moral numbing of our sensibilities will continue until this is also accepted without the blink of an eye.
For an example of how this has already progressed, think of partial birth abortion and how it can now be calmly discussed. Thirty-forty years ago anyone ever proposing such a thing would have been roundly castigated on all sides.
And so it goes.
Too many prolife folk see progress being made, an example being in the professed distaste for abortion found in many polls. This is only a small part of the Culture of Death. We're losing the war folks, the general public is becoming more accepting of the unacceptable.
Soon acts such as the one touted by Ms. Ironside will be hailed as selfless expressions of mercy and love, as opposed to those desires of the Neanderthalic prolife community. Not too long after this happens we'll probably see jail time proposed for anyone espousing views contrary to the Culture of Death.
If you think this is all delusional tin-foil hat style thinking, take a minute as I've already suggested and consider how far we've descended in the past few decades.
October 6, 2010 at 2:24 am
So, should we call DCF now? Or wait until she's actually seen in contact with physically/mentally/psychologically ill children first?
The most horrendous part of this story was after she admits that ridding herself of her two children through aborion, she admits readily that she wanted "lots more children". Say what?!?