Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Well everyone has been waiting for me to weigh in on Terri, so here you are.

[quote name="Zseni: Warrior-Poet"][quote name="Denis O'Bell"][quote name="Fussbett"]It's like magic. Comic strips are no match.[/quote]Rees goes on for a fair number of words himself, if you follow your own link. His main point seems to be: The Schiavo case really makes me think... about how much I hate Republicans and Christians. Pretty dog-bites-man for him. Jerkcity's point, if you can call it that, is something like: I hate that bitch for reminding me of my own frailty/mortality. Or maybe just: When thinking about something makes me uncomfortable, I weakly feign indifference by making crude, unfunny jokes. There's some of this in GYWO, too. Feel free to try to prove me wrong, but I'd say that some ideas just sound stupider and stupider as the word count climbs. I'd bet this is one of those, btw:[quote]The BABY KILLER wants more friends. Awww.[/quote]Actually, "stupid" isn't quite the right word. There's an immaturity comon to all these points of view, and a cowardice; a feeling that the writer is missing some vital internal fulcrum. In a word, I'd say: Unmanly. Fag.[/quote] You suck cock. Anyway the vital element in this whole atrocity isn't the woman, per se, who is a vegetable I mean to address later. It's how the woman has rapidly become something besides a woman for a wide variety of factions: to the right wing Christians, she's an "emblem" of a movement, a symbol, one who, as Michael Savage, was put on the earth to be the catalyst for a new conservative revolution. To the left wing she's a new thing to cry over with insulting, silly, and fruitless tears. To her parents she is a necromantic trophy - let's not sugarcoat this, she is a corpse chained to life by the dark arts of medicine, for no reason other than her parents' desire for her to continue living. To the body politic she is an expidient and a distraction. I've heard a lot of arguments about how there is no point in killing her, no point in her staying alive, how she is not actually a vegetable, how we should be feeding actual starving people who will get better if given food instead of a pet lumpen flesh mass. What I have heard very little about is about how Terri is a woman deprived of all means of communication with the outside world. Fuck what her parents say: they will never see her "communicate" the desire to end her life any more than she will "communicate" an interest in a new band, a new hairstyle, a new brand of maxi pads. There are two options: either is capable of some higher neural function or she is not. If she is not, then she is in fact just a pet lumpen flesh mass, and it shouldn't matter to anyone if her parents want to keep preening their little pet for as long as they're willing to pay for it. Necromancy has a fine and venerable tradition and would that it would always be put to such benign, if macabre, purposes. Much more horrifying, horrifying to the extent that nobody will even talk about it except for psycho leftists and the ABA, is that she IS capable of higher neural function, she IS thinking, she DOES perceive her surroundings, and she is conscious of being trapped in a nightmarish twilight in which her carass - in which she is jailed, life sentence without parole, in solitary confinement and deprived of all sensation - decays about her as the people she once loved bray past her and talk to the air and prod her private places and refuse to let her escape from the crushing weight of the hours. This necromancy is the true zombie production. No wonder the Christian wing is so involved in this process: necromancy is their stock in trade. Their religion since the earliest days has been a death cult - it creeped out the Romans, can you imagine how hard it was to creep out Romans? - and now with its ludicrous, ponderous insistence at "life" at all costs it spreads a black shawl over living. The idea that nothing is as important as "life" is bestial and fabulously regressive. Life is the least of our worries. We have human life in overabundance, more than anyone is interested in supporting, with no end in sight. What is truly unique to humanity, as opposed to other fauna (and flora) isn't so much tool use or problem solving or communication, it's our ability to subjugate instinct. We alone of all animals do things that don't contribute to the basic survival of the species. We do more of those things than any other kind of things! 90% of what anyone does with their waking hours is stuff besides foraging and fucking! Ours alone are the concepts of vacation, break time, and recreational poisoning. Ours alone is the concept of dying for a abstract cause. The hysterical insistence at life-at-all-costs distracts one totally from the much more difficult and complex problems and pleasures confronting us on all kinds of levels. In a way, this superabundance of life, the babies, the zombies, the procreational-sex-only, the taboos against onanism, the voluptuously overdeveloped maternal instincts of the doll-buyers and serial fathers, is more destructive than porn and gay sex and jacking off and dildos and whatever else the right wing hates these days, right down to, as Montagne would have it, the children of one's intellect - the sciences and above all the arts. The choking force of LIFE throttles all that is worth living for, even as it chews up the human race itself by driving to to the ever more insupportable population figures. So I guess what I mean to say is that how you feel about Terri should reflect pretty closely how you feel about necromancy. And I guess, to put it more explicitly, that I feel the plug should be pulled and she should be euthanized. Not starved to death, like a precedent case too hot to decide or a symbol falling out of use or a vegetable withering in the sun, but put to rest as a human being who has been unjustly abused for fifteen years and requires our respectful and humane release from prison. And to directly answer the column that started this, I feel that the genetic and cultural and social system redundancies built into the 6 or 7 billion members of the human population makes no spirit small, mean, or "disposable"; it only makes the "intelligent" part of intelligent design more palpable, and the wastefulness of our raisers of the dead and their clients more appalling. That the money spent on the Garden of Terri could be spent, as GYWO has it, on actual living people who actually need and would benefit from help, is just icing on the cake. [/quote]