Flat-Earthers in Action
I posted recently about how adherence to blind ideology will be one of the downfalls of man. We’ve seen several examples in the last week of exactly what I mean by this. Here’s just one.
*sigh*
This is the world you live in, people.
An FDA committee this week debated the approval of a drug that would save almost 4,000 lives a year in the U.S. and prevent 70% of all cervical cancers. Most consider it a major breakthrough in cancer treatment.
Why even debate it? 4,000 lives, a cancer breakthrough, surely there must be some massive side effects, it probably cures cancer but gives you leprosy, right?
Nope. The problem is that it actually cures another disease, Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV, which has been found to be a cause of a vast majority of cervical cancers.
So, it kills two dreaded diseases at once... What’s the problem again?
The problem is that HPV just happens to be most commonly spread through sexual contact, and “Christian” conservative groups such as the Family Research Council have campaigned against the drug for fear that it will encourage pre-teens - who proponents of the drug suggest should be immunized with it - to be more sexually promiscuous.
By that logic, shouldn’t we outlaw seat belts in cars, because doesn’t that encourage teens to drive more recklessly?
These flatheads have some incredible logic. These are the same people who said if you allow gay marriage, what’s gonna stop people from marrying their pets? That’s not a leap or anything.
That’s like saying we should ban matches because if someone lit a match, what’s to stop them from burning down a church?
Or we should ban martinis because if people put a toothpick through an olive, what’s to stop them from impaling children?
But I digress.
They actually think that a vaccine to a disease that kids have never heard of will make them want to have sex more. Do these guys even remember what it’s like to be a teenager? Teens couldn’t possibly want to have sex more than they already do. They’re TEENAGERS! They’re hormone factories with a pulse. They get acne because their body produces so much ejaculate that it seeps out of their pores.
I was a mess when I was a teenager. Humping a pie? Please. Seeing holes in swiss cheese turned me on. If my pillows were people, I’d be a sex offender.
It’s nature, they can’t help it. It’s been that way since the beginning of time and it always will be, there’s no changing that. But these are the kind of people who drive up to the Grand Canyon and go right over the edge because they just want to believe that it’s not there. Instead of seeing the situation for what it is and building a bridge (or just driving around it, you probably couldn’t build a bridge there because it’s a national landmark - but I’m off point).
Should teenagers be having less sex? Probably. The only way to ensure that is making every teenager like the “boy in the bubble” so they can’t have any contact with each other. But to them the answer is disease and death. How moral.
Here’s the scary thing: Is there any question what they’re going to do when - God willing - there’s a vaccine for AIDS? Many in the medical field are watching this debate in preparation for just that very thing.
It seems almost impossible to imagine that anybody would come out against a cure for a disease that kills millions a year worldwide, but that’s exactly what is expected to happen now. By people who claim to be pro-life (until you have sex, of course, apparently that voids the warranty). Could it be that these guys actually consider AIDS and HPV a good thing?
If perhaps you were wondering why I used the word “Christian” in quotations above, that’s why. I refuse to believe that any Christian would actively cheer on the number one plague of our time.
Of course, the exact same thing happened during the Middle Ages with the Black Plague. The church establishment eschewed medicine for more faith-based solutions, like burning witches at the stake. We saw how well that worked out.
Good to see how far we’ve come over the years.
Blind ideology 1, reason 0.
Monday, May 22, 2006
