Thursday, July 20, 2006

What are morals?

Bush has vetoed a Bill passed by his own republican colleagues in both houses of congress. Their response to the issue, I assume, was an intellectual and pragmatic one, whereas Bush has used his first Veto in an emotional and uneducated response. Stem cell research is important, and has the ability to save and enrich many lives.

His reason was that he didn't want state sanctioned murder. Pretty rich stuff coming from the guy who set up illegal detention centres outside of the Geneva conventions including Guantanamo Bay and invaded Iraq and Afghanistan under false pretences. No wonder Bush thinks that what Israel is currently doing to Lebanon is OK.

As the US continues to colonise the physical world with its brand of so-called democracy and its obesity and complacency causing market capitalism, they also continually try to influence the moral landscape.

Did George W Bush Jnr bother to read the details of the Bill in question? Maybe he should ask someone to read it to him. The embryos the Bill is talking about using for stem cell therapeutic research were those that were to be destroyed after couples complete IVF therapy.

If it was truly all about morals, Bush would never have embarked on his war on Islam. Morals are not the sole property of the right wing Christian Evangelist Fundamentalists from the US, in fact many would argue that these guys are more dangerous and derange than any Ayatollah.

However you look at it, these embryos were not going to be come fully viable pregnancies. They are sitting in a fridge, waiting to be used or thrown away.

Bush's brand of moralism is illogical and overly emotional without being compassionate.

He has yet again proved himself to be a fool.

1 comment:

Angus Diesel-Fumes said...

We have made that mental association between 'morals' and the christian right, because it is what they claim to be appealing to when they are being self-righteous and hateful.

The reality of 'morals', or 'ethical standards' is that there are those who refer to 'moral standards' to obscure the fact that they are trying to screw-over someone who's already disadvantaged (just consider single mothers have copped it from 'moral decency'), and there are those who try to live by some code or standard without having to make a fuss about it, or impose it on someone else.

The idea the george bush jr makes decisions on a 'moral basis' is absurd, it's just the reason he gives. See, he thinks he knows that stem-cells are from abortions, and 'abortion is bad' (his daddy told him, but the real pity is that someone told george senior that 'abortion is bad', it could have prevented two wars). So when george jr is face with a bill with 'stem cells' in the title, he just thinks 'I better stop this or the press will say I like killing babies (or storks, or where ever his parents told him babies come from". I'm certain that test-tubes in liquid nitrogen didn't enter the equation