US Senate candidate: Pregnancy from rape can be ‘something that God intended to happen’

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:

What culture that promotes life? The one that forces babies into a world that isn't ready for them, and then after they're here say "fuck you, pay your own way?"

The conservative agenda is an agenda that diminishes human dignity.

The conservative agenda of being far more generous than liberals with their charitable donations, you mean?

Not wanting good works to be done at gunpoint isn't the same thing as not wanting them to be done at all, and it sure as shit isn't, "Fuck you, pay your own way."

I suppose i can't blame you for trying to derail the argument in a "taxes are theft" direction, since it will effectively break this thread off in a different direction and distract from the main point. But if we have all these charities, where are they? Without letting the whole thing fall off the cliff into anecdotal evidence, if they're so much better than the government at doing these things, why aren't they doing them?

Like the "free market," charity doesn't meet all of the needs it should, for various reasons that don't have to do with malevolence and have more to do with natural oversight (that and charity works better on a grass-roots scale, and can't do as good a job with the big matters of mass organization)

And let's try not to make things personal, huh?