IS GOD'S ONLY CONCERN A BEATING HEART? | 2005-04-26
Ok, this is where I have been heading tonight.
One thing all civilized people agree on today is that the only thing that matters is staying alive.
The police say, "Never never, never resist a robber. Give him your money. Your life is everything. Money is nothing."
Liberals say, "Only the police should have guns."
Conservatives agree. They worship the police.
Right-to-lifers say that all that matters is Life. God is worried to death about any beating heart.
As usual, I am the only one who considers all of this not only as wrong, not only as silly, but as utterly alien.
In the United Kingdom, the place that was once known as Great Britain, there is an unwritten Welcome Mat at every door. It says, "Burglars are welcome."
The British police have two categories in their statistics that we don't have. There are "hot" burglaries and there are "cold" burglaries.
In Britain, 43% of break-ins in private homes are "hot." That means the thugs walk right into the house while the family is there.
Prolifers will be charmed by this because nobody gets killed. The children see their father helplessly giving the invaders anything they want. The British father in a "hot" robbery does everything our police officially recommend. He gives the home invaders anything they want, inviting them to rape his ten-year-old daughter if they feel like it.
They often do.
It works. The murder rate of British burglaries is almost nil.
But I have faced death many times. I know that I would far rather be killed than to live as one of those British fathers do after they gave their daughters to the home invaders.
I don't have any ancestors who didn't think that way. I guess none of them were real pro-lifers.
Life is not as precious as honor.