{"id":3436,"date":"2011-03-29T09:24:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/29\/the-most-insulting-comparison\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:26:56","slug":"the-most-insulting-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/29\/the-most-insulting-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"The most insulting comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Five myths about why the South seceded, from the Washington Post<\/a>, we learn that non-slave owning supporters of the institution of slavery in the pre-Civil War south were like currently poor supporters of the George W. Bush tax cuts.<\/p>\n

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In 1860, many subsistence farmers aspired to become large slave-owners. So poor white Southerners supported slavery then, just as many low-income people support the extension of George W. Bush’s tax cuts<\/a> for the wealthy now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Can these people be serious?  Low income people who support the tax cuts of the Bush administration aren’t mostly expecting to be rich some day.  They’re hoping to get or keep a job this year, and they understand that when the government takes money from the wealthy, the wealthy will employ fewer people.  And the poor may have figured out that the government does not create jobs, despite the misleading rhetoric of the Left.<\/p>\n

In any case, it’s risible to conflate the moral status of being allowed to keep more of the money you’ve earned through work or investment with the moral status of keeping slaves or supporting slavery.<\/p>\n

Here’s a better comparison.  Some people who have not had an abortion (or been involved with someone who had one), and don’t plan to get one anytime soon, nevertheless support abortion-on-demand.  Why?  For many, they want to keep the door open that someday, just maybe, they might want to get one, or push a woman they’re involved with to get one.<\/p>\n

Like the poor southern subsistence farmer who doesn’t really expect to be able to buy a slave, but might want to sometime, and so supports slavery, these “pro-choice” supporters don’t want to arrange their lives and behavior to obviate the “need” for abortion to be available to them.<\/p>\n

The moral status of abortion and slave-holding are far more comparable than the silly comparison quoted above, as is the reality of the “maybe someday” thinking that enabled both.<\/p>\n

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