[lit-ideas] Re: selling babies
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 09:42:20 -0500
JL:
>> HER mother was wrong, to name her Jesusa. I think that's ungrammatical,
even.<<
A mother sells her baby and JL worries about the grammatical correctness of
the child's name!!!!!!!!! Ya gotta love language philosophers.
>>Rather than 'until what age', I would ask, 'until what price' -- and you
start seeing how wrong it all is.<<
How wrong what is? The price? You're probably right. I doubt that the
mother was a very savy business person -- of course I could be wrong, many a
peasant knows how to turn a profit, but many more don't.
I think my question is this: most people would not think it unethical for a
mother to give up a child to the state or for adoption if she had very
little economic prospect of being able to raise it. In fact, many would
think it the ethical thing to do in order to save the child from a life of
gleaning through garbage dumps for pittance. So if that's the case, if the
child is to be "lost" in any event, why not "sell" it and use the money on
the other kids, or to buy a new dress -- women do get tired of wearing the
same old dress, you know. Or better yet, get drunk.
Mike Geary
Memphis
4 grandkids for sale, $1000 each. OBO. Ursulla, weren't you the one
decrying a lack of grandkids? Here's your chance.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:22 AM, <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 6/4/2010 3:00:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> until what age? Ethics is fun
>
> --- Until what age what? Stone age?
>
> --- I think she was wrong. HER mother was wrong, to name her Jesusa. I
> think that's ungrammatical, even.
>
> ---------- Rather than 'until what age', I would ask, 'until what price' --
> and you start seeing how wrong it all is.
>
> JL Speranza
> Buenos Aires, Argentina.
>
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