This is a remarkable view. The question isn’t whether birth is “convenient” (the 1 year birthday would be far more convenient, as it would allow time to decide whether one liked having a baby or not), but whether it is moral to kill babies right before birth. You seem to approve this practice — conflating morality with convenience — and moreover without limiting it to the handful of rare and drastic cases that arise. Wow.

Nice to see the moral clarity from Julian in this post. This statement is clearly true.

Arieh Smith : “There is little moral difference between infanticide and very late-term abortion. Neither is equivalent to murder, but I see no moral distinction greater than “baby is not in uterus.” If you argue that infanticide itself is not wrong, well, we part company there.”

Please read this, to find out what Tiller was doing: http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=22002

First, he’s a Slate writer; that means that he should be judged warily. Second, he’s the editor of Slate, and so should pretty much be considered guilty until proven innocent.

Remember his article on Rushton’s ‘research’?

The man is a master of the school of debated characterized by “I didn’t really mean to assert what I asserted; I just want to, um, ‘explore’ some ideas”. He’s the sort of guy who excuses things with the word ‘controversial’.

Ewe // Jun 2, 2009 at 5:27 pm

“One thing is clear: if the lunatic left had shown 1/100th of the level of regret at the murder of Pim Fortuyn or if even one Islamist had denounced the assassination of Theo van Gogh, we’d be way-the-fuck closer to even-Steven.”

Ah, the famous ‘even if one Islamist….’

Julian, on a later post here, you expressed dismay at commenters on liberal blogs who were sexist at right-wing women. I said that you now know how liberals feel when they read ‘libertarian’ blog comment threads. Note the left-right breakdown here, and you have a much more libertarian set of commenters than most do – go over to Reason for a bunch of right-wing WATB’s who are still crying over their side losing the election (no matter how much they say that they’re not with the GOP).

One thing is clear: if the lunatic left had shown 1/100th of the level of regret at the murder of Pim Fortuyn or if even one Islamist had denounced the assassination of Theo van Gogh, we’d be way-the-fuck closer to even-Steven.

I do miss the Weekly World News, though. Where have you gone, Bat-boy? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.