I was on my way to realizing that “pro-life” is an irredeemably rhetorical weapon unworthy of morally serious people already, but I believe I was everlastingly delivered from that accursed way of conceiving self and others when my genius friend, Reva
Could you direct me to a slogan on any controversial issue in American politics that isn't "an irredeemably rhetorical weapon unworthy of morally serious [or informed] people"?
I am not sure that the pro-life crowd is particularly out of genre, I guess.
Generosity as “giving yourself poor” seems applicable here. I don’t want to hear “charity” tossed around as applicable alternatives to social justice until I see us giving our kidneys. A kidneyless beloved community... what a different witness. Perhaps a (more) faithful one.
"Pro-life" that doesn't include rejecting the death penalty (along with a thousand other anti-life policies and procedures) should simply be called anti-abortion, right? And David, can we organize a safe drive-in movie situation when Penny Lane finishes this?
Great to hear from you, my brother. I welcome every attempt at nuance. Poetry memorializes nuance, as Sarah Masen once said. I....don't think "anti-abortion" works well as a self-descriptor either because it takes us further into sense-dulling generalization (which, to my mind, is tyranny's oxygen supply). I know people who say they want to make laws (or help others make laws) that bring armed force against women and doctors who choose abortion, but I don't think that stated position makes them "anti-abortion" anymore than it makes them "pro-life." And yes, let's have that drive-in movie situation soon and very soon.
Could you direct me to a slogan on any controversial issue in American politics that isn't "an irredeemably rhetorical weapon unworthy of morally serious [or informed] people"?
I am not sure that the pro-life crowd is particularly out of genre, I guess.
I don't know which issues are controversial and which phrases/assertions concerning the issues are thought of as slogans.
Generosity as “giving yourself poor” seems applicable here. I don’t want to hear “charity” tossed around as applicable alternatives to social justice until I see us giving our kidneys. A kidneyless beloved community... what a different witness. Perhaps a (more) faithful one.
"Pro-life" that doesn't include rejecting the death penalty (along with a thousand other anti-life policies and procedures) should simply be called anti-abortion, right? And David, can we organize a safe drive-in movie situation when Penny Lane finishes this?
Great to hear from you, my brother. I welcome every attempt at nuance. Poetry memorializes nuance, as Sarah Masen once said. I....don't think "anti-abortion" works well as a self-descriptor either because it takes us further into sense-dulling generalization (which, to my mind, is tyranny's oxygen supply). I know people who say they want to make laws (or help others make laws) that bring armed force against women and doctors who choose abortion, but I don't think that stated position makes them "anti-abortion" anymore than it makes them "pro-life." And yes, let's have that drive-in movie situation soon and very soon.