[lit-ideas] Re: selling babies
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 14:50:29 +0000 (GMT)
it's an interesting question. Private adoptions are illegal here but in
countries where they aren't, money often -- I think -- changes hands. It
occurs to me the problem lies less in 'selling' babies -- assuming all legal
safeguards are met -- than in buying them.
'why not "sell" it and use the money on the other kids, or to buy a new
dress'
or buy food
Judy Evans
--- On Fri, 4/6/10, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: selling babies
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, 4 June, 2010, 15:42
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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