How goes the world this day (21 March 2009)?

As we wake up and go off and face our day, it is beneficial to consider the state of the world. Three stories from Fox News show us that the world continues to be at a tilt toward craziness and that people should always be on guard for the encroaching debauchery and moral ambivalence.

1. Fox News reports that "The parents of a seriously ill baby in Britain have said they are "deeply distressed" by a legal ruling which will allow their "only and beloved son" to die." Some quick background, these parents (unnamed in the story) have a son that has suffered brain damage and "major respiratory failue". The British appeals court have upheld a Court Ruling giving permission for the attending doctors to allow this baby to die. The doctors felt that the boy's life was "intolerable and that his disability is such that his life has little purpose" (source was from the Times Online website). So we have Courts decided (with doctors) when a child should die over the objections of the parents. I wait for the backlash from the Abortion Rights crowd as I thought the Government and Judiciary was supposed to stay out of "personal decisions" such as this. Sure, this happened in Britain but why should we think it can't happen here?
   

   
    

2. Second story – also from Fox News with the title "Alaska and Florida Consider Bans on Bestiality". Uhh, considering? I guess what is driven adopting the ban is that "a 26-year-old registered sex offender was accused of molesting a local family's pet dog". This apparently "scared" the local Alaskan community as opposed to having a registered sex offender in the town. I can't wait to hear the arguments against the ban. The Fox News story also cites a number of cases that have caused injury or death to the animal (apparently Florida has a rash of sexual assaults against goats). I guess I am wondering why the hell we need a law against this. Isn't this one of those things that folks are born knowing (thou shalt not have sex with animals)? Sort of like the law banning texting while driving. So sure – let's pass a law banning Bestiality but if we need to pass this, how about a law requiring welfare recipients to work (or attend school and maintain at least a "B") or a law that says any illegal immigrant caught by law enforcement is sent back to their country of origin. These also seem like slam dunks. I wonder where Britain stands on Bestiality?
   

   
    

3. Final story, from Bucharest, Romania, courtesy of Fox News "Romania Eyes Legalizing Consensual Incest, Wouldn't Be First Country in Europe". Romania follows France, Spain and Portugal in potentially not prosecuting consenting adults for incest. One person that supported this legal move was quoted in the story as saying "If brothers and sisters want to have fun, why should they be imprisoned? It is nobody's business what I do in my bedroom,".
   

   
    

A quick survey of the state of our world today, 21 March 2009 as this civilization teeters at the brink of abject corruption because we lack to stones to tell a segment of the population "You are wrong". What a Brave New World we are building.

Outspoken Roman