Strange attractions to the Obamaman…case study: Nishi
All these strange attractions to Obama…
263. Comment by nishizonoshinji on 2/27 @ 2:43 pm
look..im conservative by heredity.
im a constitutionalist, and i fervently desire smaller government and lower taxes.
GW did a fine job on nat’l defense.
but i dont see that he was conservative anywhere else.
and up to 1/3 of the republican party is now percieved to be theocons.
theocons are nannystatists…they want to restrict my right to die if my parents should want to keep my nonsentient flesh doll/animated corpse going. theocons are not constitutionalists….they attempted to overturn judiciary branch rulings with the emminently sillie “terri’s law.” theocons want to restrict science–most generally biotech, including cloning, ESCR, genetic engineering and research chimeras. theocons want to restrict my reproductive choices. theocons have convolved religion with government, and would like to impose the teaching of quaint faery tales in high school science programs.
the republican party has been the anti-science party for the eight years.
my definition of theocon is someone who seeks to impose religious values on others thru the political process.
so im voting O.
Nishi is by trade a genetic engineerist, and seeks to chip away at the restrictions of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, obviously blaming Republicans for their ‘theo’ restrictions. I believe there’s some ethicicism required in science; if not rooted in religion, then from what deep well will moral sensibilities flow? Surely not from Government; if anything, both parties lack morality by their very natures. We see our ‘freedoms’ to treat unborn children (given time; give some of the latest-term aborted fetuses as little as a few days, then yes, you will have a squalling human child) as mere ‘nonsentient cell clumps’, which result in what may be horrific soul-murders. That’s probably not going away, no matter what fearmongering Democrats rouse up in their ranks of feminazis.
My only point is to ask, what bank of ethics do you want to draw from when you confront new and exciting genetic research? That ancient wellspring based on what limited religion we allow in our society today, or simply the easy-out of selfish adults and paid-for politicos who see only the benefits to their own lifespans (and pocketbooks)?
This pshop, William, started months ago as a “Diversity Man” idea Dan had (long before Obama became the phenom in ‘ultimate spiritual diversity’. The thing languished until this morning. The ‘elf troll’ implanted on the right is how Nishi self-describes (leaving a link to that pic, I can’t find the link, though) in comments, somewhere in PWland.
I really think that, well my guess is, since I don’t know very much, is that new and exciting genetic engineering research is going to end up being increasingly not really prohibitively expensive, and South Korea and Genentech and a couple MIT grads with a spot of venture capital and a technical college in Ireland and an Al Qaeda hideout in Lahore and some underutilized lab space at Johnson & Johnson are all going to be players on more or less the same footing. Government will keep up the pretense of being large and in charge only until bad shit starts happening, and then I’m not sure what happens.
Hare Krisna