From e0bb85a2454ba5071ee554b5072a419f832d73ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: muflax Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:29:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] awesome carlin quote --- content/references.mkd | 1 + content/reflections/antinatalism.mkd | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/references.mkd b/content/references.mkd index 49e373f..7cc8447 100644 --- a/content/references.mkd +++ b/content/references.mkd @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ is_hidden: true [puredoxyk]: http://www.puredoxyk.com [suffering per kg]: http://www.utilitarian-essays.com/suffering-per-kg.html [tripzine]: http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?smlid=268 +[Carlin Sanctity]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AvF1Q3UidWM [A-theory]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-series_and_B-series diff --git a/content/reflections/antinatalism.mkd b/content/reflections/antinatalism.mkd index 4988351..3e8a29e 100644 --- a/content/reflections/antinatalism.mkd +++ b/content/reflections/antinatalism.mkd @@ -361,6 +361,12 @@ TODO ### Potential People have Rights too +Why should we consider it a right not to be harmed, but not a right to live? + +> You know where the sanctity of life came from? We made it up. You know why? 'Cuz we're alive. Self-interest. Living people have a strong interest in promoting the idea that somehow life is sacred. You don't see Abbott and Costello running around, talking about this shit, do you? We're not hearing a whole lot from Mussolini on the subject. What's the latest from JFK? Not a goddamn thing. 'Cuz JFK, Mussolini and Abbott and Costello are *fucking dead*. They're fucking dead. And dead people give less than a shit about the sanctity of life. Only living people care about it so the whole thing grows out of a completely biased point of view. It's a self serving, man-made bullshit story. +> +> -- [George Carlin][Carlin Sanctity] + See the [asymmetry](#asymmetry). ### But most people don't want to die!