Vale's Slippery Slope
This story about a statement by Dana Vale was on the news tickers this morning.
At it’s crux runs this interesting slippery slope argument:
I) If control of RU486 (an abortion drug) is taken from the Government (and given to the Therapeutic Goods Administration), then Australian will become a Muslim nation.
II) Becoming a Muslim nation is ethically impermissible (which seems to be analogous to ‘taking a step towards NAZI Germany’ – ‘The NAZI Analogy’ – in this argument).
III) Therefore, the Government should maintain control of RU486.
I really think that the argument overplays its hand …
At it’s crux runs this interesting slippery slope argument:
I) If control of RU486 (an abortion drug) is taken from the Government (and given to the Therapeutic Goods Administration), then Australian will become a Muslim nation.
II) Becoming a Muslim nation is ethically impermissible (which seems to be analogous to ‘taking a step towards NAZI Germany’ – ‘The NAZI Analogy’ – in this argument).
III) Therefore, the Government should maintain control of RU486.
I really think that the argument overplays its hand …
posted by MH at 9:28 am
3 Comments:
This is similar to a problem I have had concerning pineapples. The issue is this: if each pineapple tree produces one pineapple, and that pineapple is eaten and not re-planted, how is ther not a decreasing number of pineapples in the world? Clearly there is not a declining pineapple population, despite the many 'aborted' pineapples that never got to produce their next generation. This may explain the over abundance of that most unethical of fruits: the tomato - so evil is it that it even masquerades as a vegetable and finds its way into salads and sandwiches of all descriptions.
So clearly we must stop the muslims from being more procreative or else we will have a tomato like problem removing the sweet sweet pineapple that is the 'australian'!
4 points jump to mind:
1) we are buisy killing many muslims so we are helping stop this evil from spreading
2) we are an advanced industrialized society which means we have had a stabilized low birth rate for some time, which may be diminishing but only occurs in economic conditions the likes of which the liberals rejoice at. Contraception is only practiced in econimic conditions that call for a stabilized and small population, which invests heavily in limited young, as opposed to the do it buy numbers method. So to stem this problem I propose the retroactive return to a pre-indutrialized society to have a higher rate of birth established - after all Australia clearly has good conditions for an agrarian society - just look at our semi-nomadic indigenous tradition.
3) Education is the best way to have a reduced population rate (and educated populaces only occur in industrializing/ed societies) but the liberals are already working on this problem by starving our education institutions, implementing a regime of creating a trained not educated populace - this should mean that the actual usage of the abortion drug would be somewhat limited anyway.
4) why are Muslims evil? A minority might be but the same is true of Christians. So what we should be doing is sterilizing all religious denominations to stop that hand full of religious zealots who like to kill those not of their faith, and this includes John howard who is of course the best argument for compulsory sterilization I have ever encountered outside of Alexander Downer.
Rowan – does this mean that your one of those anti-tomato fundamentalists?
Tomatos are clearly the devil's fruit, why else would you throw them at bad comedians.
But I would actually like to have the problem of the pineapples solved as it does appear to be an issue, unless if the owner of the pineapple plant I observed didn't know anything much about them and was wrong in saying they only produce one fruit.
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