[Before I go on my tangent about soldiers and heroes, I just want to make a note regarding this specific cartoon: If that soldier really believed that he was fighting to protect Kevin’s right not to stand for the pledge, then that soldier (AND the teacher) should both have absolutely NO problem with Kevin choosing not to stand. What is the point of losing your ability to walk to protect Kevin’s right to choose, if you don’t actually want Kevin to choose? This cartoon is the height of hypocrisy.]
Soldiers go to war to defend their country. At least, this is what is in the heart of most soldiers, and it is that heartfelt belief that makes them heroes.
The unfortunate truth however, is that they’re not really defending their country so much as the agendas of the large corporations and political interests that rarely, if ever, are shared with the soldiers.
So they go, they lose limbs and they die, believing that they are protecting their country from dangers that in reality are negligible compared to what they’ve been made to sound like by those who only want war and don’t care who’s sons and daughters they have to kill to get what they want.
Cartoons like this one strike a nerve in me. Not only because I truly feel for those soldiers and their families, and the true altruism that the human spirit is proven capable of every time a soldier jumps on a grenade to protect his comrades, but because I know that they are dying in vain.
Of course, that’s just my humble opinion.
- The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (via 
tears from which I have harvested my wealth”.
Don’t think of it as killing babies, think of it as killing criminals.
Do I feel sorry for young, new parents who live in poverty? No. If you couldn’t afford to feed a family, you had no business having one. The law of the jungle is that only the strongest survive. You don’t see all the tigers gathering around to help a lame tiger raise her young, do you? No. If anything, you see the other tigers watch as the lame tiger’s young are killed by other animals. That’s life. Human beings are frighteningly arrogant in their belief that they somehow have a right to circumvent nature’s law. If you can’t afford to feed a family, it is not the responsibility of the rest of society to pick up the pieces and fix your mistake. Your child deserves to go hungry for your stupidity, hopefully stopping your idiot-infected bloodline before it has a chance to grow up and also procreate. That’s nature. That’s life.
e teen pregnancy “epidemic”, and the answer to that question is simply… No. Sure, some teens might purposely get pregnant in the hopes of getting on the show and becoming famous, but the real cause of their pregnancy is the fact that their bodies are ready to procreate. To call this an “epidemic” is to insinuate that the human drive to reproduce is somehow an “illness” that needs to be neutralized. When a girl’s body is ready to carry a pregnancy to term, she is ready to be a mother. The only reason these girls often do such a poor job as mothers is because we live in a society that treats teens like babies, creating an atmosphere of judgement and degradation when all they are trying to do is be human. Perhaps if the parents of these teenagers wouldn’t have babied them so horribly, they’d have the maturity to be able to plan their pregnancies out better, and perhaps the maturity to wait until they were capable of sustaining themselves before bringing a new mouth to feed into the world. Unfortunately, the babies come whether the mother is capable of sustaining herself or not, and that is the fault of the mother’s parents who never taught her anything about real life or personal responsibility. 
It was cold and windy that day in Northern Canada. Of course, it’s almost always cold and windy during the seal hunting season. Seal hunters, with families to feed just like deer or moose hunters, were hard at work clubbing seals. Clubbing: Sounds horrific, but is really no more inhumaine than shooting a deer or shoving a sharp hook through the mouth of a fish. Less inhumaine than the fish thing, actually, considering proper clubbing technique results in the instant death of the seal where fish are forced to suffer the piercing pain of metal through their inner mouth and sometimes into their eyesocket. PETA would have you believe that the seals don’t die instantly because they flop around on the ice after being clubbed, but that is simply a nervous reaction much like a chicken after it’s had its head cut off.
