The folly of sanctity of life

I find it interesting that we act just like a virus....moving from place to place and multiplying uncontrollably, killing everything in our paths...yet we have the audacity to preach "sanctity of life," when it's clear what we only mean is "sanctity if white, Christian unborn and infant life."

It's no wonder that women swoon and fawn over this idea that life....well, these lives...are precious. They are cute and defenseless and hardly a woman on earth can resist running to their rescue.

Until they aren't cute, anymore. Then if they are born poor they are welfare moochers. And if they aren't white, or aren't Christian we should, "get these terrorists-in-the-making out of our country!"

This rant doesn't cover the complexities of procreation or social issues, but it is here to make one point: perhaps, instead of focusing on this hpocritical notion of "sanctity of life," we should focus on a new idea: the sanctity of Quality of life.

We are so stuck on this idea that we are unique and important...one excessive breeder even said we are like flowers and you can never have too many flowers in a garden. I disagree. A garden can get overrun, and I'd hardly call any one of us unique. It's rare that any of us have a thought someone else hasn't already had. No one 500 miles away knows who you are or necessarily cares, yet we are stuck on a notion of uniqueness, created soley by our own ego.

Let's be unique. Let's be rare. Let's have fewer kids so we can give them more. Our corporate gods may not like fewer worker bees...they'd have to pay us more and treat us more fairly...but it will ensure that what little we have, we can adequately give our offspring. It will ensure resources are availabile to all. It will ensure people get the individual attention they crave. And for those whose lives become unbearable, we should give them the dignity of deciding their own fate.

Sanctity of Quality of Life....I think it's time to explore this further.