Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

Stupidity from The Smirking Chimp

…and I’m sad to say that this time it appears to have been written by a Smirker himself…

The Smirking Chimp: “Pro-lifers hold their little marches and hold their signs, and blow up an abortion clinic here and there, but when it comes to real activism, they suck, just like most of us. I would have a lot more respect for pro-lifers if they volunteered their time and energy to the actual care of those they claim to be protecting. Adopt some of those unwanted babies you keep insisting be born. Go change the bedding, diapers, and colostomy bags for those terminally ill who have absolutely no one marching in their names. You’re not going to do any of that and you know it. Yet you get all up in arms when someone wants to prevent or end their suffering. Typical. To further point out your ridiculousness, stem-cell research might be the one way to truly find a cure for Terri Schiavo. Culture of life, indeed.”

Let’s just do a brief dissection here, okay?

“…[pro-lifers] blow up an abortion clinic here and there…”

Puh-leeze. And when’s the last time THAT happened? Isn’t it just a wee bit unfair to impugn an entire group of people with the actions of just a few extremists? Don’t liberals really hate it when wingnuts do the same thing?

“I would have a lot more respect for pro-lifers if they volunteered their time and energy to the actual care of those they claim to be protecting.”

Of course, he has no idea whether pro-lifers don’t, in fact, adopt unwanted babies and care for the sick and poor more often than abortion advocates. I don’t know either. I can say though, that based only on my personal experience, people who are very involved with their churches (or synagogues or whatever) are also more involved with doing charitable stuff. At the church Mark and I occasionally attend, “the churchies” are always doing stuff like putting together bag lunches and distributing them to homeless people in DC. If they’re representative, then it’s probably safe to say that pro-lifers (who tend to be “church-y”) probably are generally more charitable than pro-abortion folk. Or maybe not. The point is, neither of us really know.

So… this guy’s objections are pretty much complete bullshit.

Free hint for would-be-liberals: Before you criticize conservatives for something, be absolutely, positively sure you’ve really got the facts.

Oh…and don’t engage in this sort of really stupid argumentation. Read up on logic and rhetoric. Truly, it’s one of the best things a person can do if they want to figure out what’s true and what’s not.