Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:27:57 PM
It is interesting that the Leftists are calling global warming the big moral issue of our time.
What have we learned from Leftists about moral issues? Let’s apply their reasoning on moral issues to global warming:
1. Whose morality? What’s true and right for you may not be for me! Don’t force your morality on me. Stay out of my garage. Stay out of my electrical system. I like global warming, and you have no right to tell me to stop!
2. People are going to “do it” anyway. We might as well educate them about how to safely drive gas-guzzlers. We’ll give them vaccinations, abortions, clean needles, and put condoms on the tailpipes. That will prevent anything bad from happening and solve the problems. After all, they prevent anything bad from happening to teenagers, right? Or maybe we can change the oil for them, give them new brakes and shocks, correct the alignment, and wash the cars. We want people to be able to drive gas-guzzlers safely. Get with the twenty-first century. Kids are going to drive gas-guzzlers anyway – you can’t stop them.
3. Why do you hate my alternative lifestyle? You claim to have research that says it is harmful, but I can find research that says it isn’t. I have a right to drive a gas-guzzler.
4. There should be tax funding to make sure poor people can get gas-guzzlers.
5. Don’t like gas-guzzlers? Don’t drive one! My vehicle, my choice!
6. You are being bigoted when you mark parking spaces as being for “compact” vehicles, or when you won’t let me drive my gas-guzzler in the HOV lane just because I have a “drive-alone” orientation and do not drive a hybrid. You are saying my love for gas-guzzlers is inferior. How dare you judge me and discriminate against me. I should be able to park in those spaces and drive in those lanes – after all, aren’t I guaranteed equal protection and access?
7. We’re here, we’re BBQing, get used to it!
8. Not only do I have a right to BBQ and drive a gas-guzzler, but if I get cancer as a result, then you should pay for my medical treatments, or you are a bigot.
9. I'm going to organize a parade of mobile BBQs and idling gas-guzzlers and get really, really in your face.
10. I need a gas-guzzler and to BBQ my food for medical reasons.
All kidding aside, one act of fornication can result in death. People are dying all over the world due to their fornication. Also, abortion kills at least one human being each time, and can kill the mother as well. One drug overdose can result in death. Growing up in a broken home makes someone more likely to engage in violent criminal activity or get trapped in deadly gang life. How many people are dying from global warming today?
As for "evangelical" leaders signing on to global warming alarmism - Leftists should not see that as a good sign. Such people very often "buy high and sell low." I would take it as a sign that the alarmism has peaked and is on the decline.