Richard Dawkins: 'Immoral' not to abort Down's foetuses

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Truth hurts.


Middle Ages
Whereas theologians and clerics preached sparing their lives, newborn abandonment continued as registered in both the literature record and in legal documents.[8] According to William L. Langer, exposure in the Middle Ages "was practiced on gigantic scale with absolute impunity, noticed by writers with most frigid indifference".[45] At the end of the 12th century, notes Richard Trexler, Roman women threw their newborns into the Tiber river in daylight.[46]

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Truth hurts.


Middle Ages
Whereas theologians and clerics preached sparing their lives, newborn abandonment continued as registered in both the literature record and in legal documents.[8] According to William L. Langer, exposure in the Middle Ages "was practiced on gigantic scale with absolute impunity, noticed by writers with most frigid indifference".[45] At the end of the 12th century, notes Richard Trexler, Roman women threw their newborns into the Tiber river in daylight.[46]

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There y'all go with yer librul Kenyan Muslim socialist facts again.
 

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Truth hurts.


Middle Ages
Whereas theologians and clerics preached sparing their lives, newborn abandonment continued as registered in both the literature record and in legal documents.[8] According to William L. Langer, exposure in the Middle Ages "was practiced on gigantic scale with absolute impunity, noticed by writers with most frigid indifference".[45] At the end of the 12th century, notes Richard Trexler, Roman women threw their newborns into the Tiber river in daylight.[46]

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Oh but why look back to the Middle Ages?

Lets just follow what is going on in China, India, Africa, N. Korea and Pakistan today!

Oh forgot... you're a bigot.
 

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Richard Dawkins is a genius

Read "The Selfish Gene" or any of his books.
No, a genius recognises the possibility that he might be wrong, and seeks data to disprove his conclusions, in order to further refine his understanding. Dawkins is a self-satisfied Oxford elitist jerkoff who thinks he's the dog's balls and has all the answers. The funny part is how few people (including Dawkins himself) seem to get how he sounds exaclty like a preacher, complacent and unshakeable in his conviction that he has The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth.


But I don't mean that in a bad way. . .
 

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I'm a bigot because I didn't mention every heinous act delivered from every culture that had ever existed?

Sounds like you guys are on a witch hunt here.

Tsk tsk tsk.
 

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No, a genius recognises the possibility that he might be wrong, and seeks data to disprove his conclusions, in order to further refine his understanding. Dawkins is a self-satisfied Oxford elitist jerkoff who thinks he's the dog's balls a

He thinks he's the dog's balls....

is it good to be a ball sack on a dog? I'd be horrified...
 

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No, a genius recognises the possibility that he might be wrong, and seeks data to disprove his conclusions, in order to further refine his understanding. Dawkins is a self-satisfied Oxford elitist jerkoff who thinks he's the dog's balls and has all the answers. The funny part is how few people (including Dawkins himself) seem to get how he sounds exaclty like a preacher, complacent and unshakeable in his conviction that he has The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth.


But I don't mean that in a bad way. . .

That's okay
You aren't qualified to judge him. Btw. you just described yourself.
 
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The term was widely used and accepted when I was growing up. While I do not currently use the term (aside from above post to Walter) it was common when I grew up. It was not judgmental but just a designation. The PC movement informed us that it should be considered derogitory and so now people are sensitive over it.

yep, same for me, no such term as 'mentally challenged', and 'mongoloid' was also the only term we knew,
never heard of 'downs syndrome' till probably in my forties, but as a kid and teenager, we never used the
term 'retard', that didn't come around till much later, 'nuts', 'dingbat', 'screwy', 'brainless', etc., are
terms i remember from my teens, and i'm sure a few others i have forgotten.,
 

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yep, same for me, no such term as 'mentally challenged', and 'mongoloid' was also the only term we knew,
never heard of 'downs syndrome' till probably in my forties, but as a kid and teenager, we never used the
term 'retard', that didn't come around till much later, 'nuts', 'dingbat', 'screwy', 'brainless', etc., are
terms i remember from my teens, and i'm sure a few others i have forgotten.,

Good post Talloola.

I only took two introductory courses in Psychology decades ago so I'm no authority.