Michael Lucas Monterey: Creative Evolutionary

I finally got fed up enough to go ahead and write a semi-humorous OpEd piece on the insanities and inanities swirling around in the smog of nonsense & lies. I hope y’all like the new, revised version enough to recommend and Share it, as widely and freely as possible. Thanks ~ M

ALABAMA v. GOD et al

Copyright © 2024 Michael Lucas Monterey (Creative Commons Licensing protocols apply)

Who gave any Alabamians the Right to decide when a person’s life begins? Oh, right, nobody. Even if some humanoid reptilian ETs told themselves they had a Right to declare that an incomplete, potential human being is a self-determining person (with a life in the real world), that would be a fiction. Fictional “Rights” are unreal.

What does God have to do with any of this? Well, many if not all “Right” to Lifers claim to base their opinion on their religion. “Right” to Lifers claim to be Christians, but their Bible does not call incomplete or potential people living persons. As honest Rabbis, Nuns, and some Protestant Ministers admit, according to the Bible, human life began with a first breath. Hence, so do all the other ones.

Most scientists are either unable or unwilling to say that a fertilized mammalian egg or a semi-developed embryo is more than a quasi-parasitic potential animal. No real scientists say that an incomplete/potential animal is a fully finished being, like a real person.

So, where did some judges (among others) get the idea that they have a Right to make a ridiculous opinion into a law? I don’t know, but this is about the facts.

Sane adults should consider all the facts, contributing factors, and circumstances. First, people who claim that eggs are people are clearly confused about both the Bible and eggs. So, anti-abortionist opinions and confusions have nothing to do with science or Judeo-Christianity. Do severely confused or deluded (and ignorant) people have a spiritual or legal Right to claim that an egg or an unfinished embryo is a person? No—and even if such unrealistic people somehow get to be “Justices” or judges—they have no Right to enact or enforce laws based on nonsensical falsehoods.

BTW, that truth is embedded in our American Jurisprudence, the USA’s ruling legal decisions on realities of justice and law (to prevent long-term judicial clown shows). That fact disqualifies fake “Justices” who claim authority to nullify justice and sanity.

However, to evaporate the fog of confusion and delusion, let’s consider more basic realities and truths. Alabamians who think that eggs are children must think they know what a person is. Yet, they ignore the fact that, like personality, humanity is essentially a principle. Thus, they are unqualified to judge when an actual human life begins, and what eggs, animals, parasites, persons and Rights really are.

Egg Worshippers also fail to recognize the difference between potentials and actualities (realities). Other issues and facts should be considered equally important for clarity.

Clearly, an egg is either a future chicken or a future person, or whatever, not a person or chicken living here and now. So, unless you are confused about the difference between the present and the future, you can’t say that an egg and a chicken are the same thing. Should anyone think that a potential chicken is an actual chicken? No, so, should anyone who says that the egg of a human animal equals a walking (or crawling), talking (or babbling) human person be allowed to judge or rule living, breathing humans?

I think not. Here in the USA, anti-realistic, ignorant people have no Right to judge and rule anybody, any woman, any religion, or a science. So, we can move on to other issues causing such huge diversion of humane attention and energy. Consider the nature of a being, living in the world as a fully developed person.

Obviously, there are important differences between potential and actual people, and between delusions and realities, falsehoods and truths, and between absurd opinions and facts. So, we can be sure that people who want everybody to agree with the absurdity of chickens (or whatever) equaling eggs should be put in their place.

Where that is I don’t know, but it is not in a Court, or in the office of the President of the USA. Yet, let’s go deeper now, and not let deluded fools keep distracting us from the job of sustaining cultural sanity, good government, and functional communities. We need to tackle the fuzzy yet thorny issues of religionists versus humanity. Again, humanity is a principle, like personality. So, what or who deserves the title and status of either?

Yes, a human animal has abilities and mental capabilities that other mammals lack. But, are neurologically stunted psychopaths fully human? Should an unknowable, potentially human, future person be considered a fully human being? So far, if a person can’t breathe (etc.), communicate, and be known, science says “no” to the last question. Oddly, “Right to Lifers” disagree.

Regardless, the Vedic scriptures of ancient India include ‘conversations’ with an incarnation of “God” (or Vishnu), named Krishna. Allegedly, he said that our greatest tragedy is unwanted children. The ancient Hawaiians would agree. They considered healthy children their greatest treasures. Yet, they saw some babies as accidents (of the Goddess and/or nature). Those were given as sacrificial gifts, offerings to Lono (sharks), God of the Ocean.

Were the Hawaiians wrong or inhumane, and Krishna was right, or what? At this late stage of global consumerism, with 8+ billion of us here, we should agree on what deserves to be considered humane or human.

Is an emotionally dead, utterly unethical serial killer or an emotionally defective, anti-ethical narcissist fully human, really? Are they unfixable broken animals, horribly harmful accidents of nature? Those are difficult questions. Yet, how hard is it to see the difference between an egg and a hen, or between a quasi-parasitic embryo and a breathing, eating, drinking, pooing, peeing, walking, talking child (or a voter)?

To me, it seems no harder than knowing the difference between an intelligent, sane, humane judge (or politician) and an immoral, anti-ethical con-artist (or tyrant).

So, I think that, if a doctor or husband wants a woman to live a healthy life without giving birth, if it will kill her—then, despite all possible moralistic issues—neither you nor I have any Right to interfere with their decision-making process. Likewise, when a woman or girl finds herself pregnant, but does not want to raise a child—for whatever reason—does anyone else have a Right to make her give birth? No, we have no Right to impose our will on her.

Nor do we have a Right to force a human female to adopt our opinions and suffer the consequences for the rest of her life. Otherwise, we should force “Right” to Lifers to pay for all the extra expenses of unwanted births for the durations of the impacted lifetimes. We might also then force them to stop killing and eating animals and eggs. Yet, that would be as impractical as it is unconstitutionally illegal. Forcing anybody to give birth, then do a good job of supporting and training an unwanted child is unrealistic, unjust and unconstitutional, illegal.

Yet, what deserves to be called evidence of humanity? Consistent displays of humaneness, fairness, and appropriate responsiveness show an embodied expression of humane personality. So, humanity is expressed as compassionate, empathetic, bio-ethically responsible, appropriately life-enhancing conduct. But, if I’m wrong, what’s the alternative?

Who knows, but do we really have time to waste on fighting over bogus problems? That causes more trouble than it could ever be worth. We have a complex mix of huge, very real problems threatening the survival of all generations of us here now. So, I sincerely hope we quit wasting our most valuable resource: opportunity.

I agree with the ancient Chinese, who knew that “not even God can help those who forfeit opportunity”. So, if you want to argue with God or science, well — go for it.

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ML Monterey, Western Cascadia, USA, 2024, March 3