tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983372.post112837508676069903..comments2023-11-05T04:04:12.442-05:00Comments on Short Schrift: Oh, WilliamTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026955797817424956noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983372.post-1128462889687124342005-10-04T17:54:00.000-04:002005-10-04T17:54:00.000-04:00As you know, even in the US such sterilizations ha...As you know, even in the US such sterilizations have taken place, notably during the eugenics era for the mentally retarded, insane, and criminals. Even today it is debated as a treatment for rape.<BR/><BR/>Given this history, a government program of enforced sterilization or abortion of criminals, while it SOUNDS impossibly reprehensible, could happen sometime in the future. <BR/><BR/>As a legal doctrine, if sterilization was a just punishment, wouldn't abortion be as well? Sterilization prevents a person from EVER having children, abortion is just a one-shot deal.<BR/><BR/>Of course, the politics of the moment would (probably, and thankfully) not permit such a thing. But stranger turns of politics have occured over time.<BR/><BR/>And Bennett is a degenerate gambler moron.<BR/><BR/>I reread this comment and I hate it, but I am going to post it anyway, so that all may hate me. Ha! How's that for narcisstic masochism!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com