Thus spoke duhbya’s Bioethicist
Here is a (partial) list of the recent changes that hamper courtship and marriage: the sexual revolution, made possible especially by effective female contraception; the ideology of feminism and the changing educational and occupational status of women; the destigmatization of bastardy, divorce, infidelity, and abortion; the general erosion of shame and awe regarding sexual matters, … widespread morally neutral sex education in schools; the explosive increase in the numbers of young people whose parents have been divorced … great increases in geographic mobility, with a resulting loosening of ties to place and extended family of origin; … and an ethos that lacks transcendent aspirations and asks of us no devotion to family, God, or country, encouraging us simply to soak up the pleasures of the present.
Note: Leon Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and The College at the University of Chicago, and Chairman of the President’s Commission on Bioethics. You know, the guy who decided the whole stem cell line bullshit for Bush.
Crooked Timber has the snarky commentary… which pretty much renders me useless here. Oh well.
And people wonder why there’s no stem cell research and South Korea has surpassed us in medical technology in related fields.
Thanks for turning us back into a bunch of ignorant superstitious witch-burning hicks, duhbya. You fucking moron.