Would Jeb Bush Kill Baby Hitler In His Crib? "Hell Yeah, I Would!"

Would Jeb Bush Kill Baby Hitler In His Crib? "Hell Yeah, I Would"

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Alan: Many "conservative" litmuses are attempts to determine who deserves to die, who deserves to live and who deserves to be tortured.

"Christian Conservatism: "The Saved," "The Damned," "The Rich," "The Poor"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/christian-conservatism-saved-damned.html

Americans, Especially Catholics, Approve Of Inquisitorial Torture

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At the bottom of such nonsense is the belief that certitude is always within reach.

Conservatives are in such headlong rush to spill blood and induce pain that the most rudimentary epistemological questions don't even get asked. 

"The Death Of Epistemolgy"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-polls-skewed-death-of-epistemology.html

How in God's name -- or any name!?! -- can human beings know know if a baby will grow up to be Hitler?

If -- as Republicans say -- free will is a reality, then nothing is known about anyone's future actions, much less an infant's.

Which cuts to the quick... 

Conservatives don't believe in freedom. 

Instead, they believe in their own self-righteous, judgmental omniscience and thus, having presumed for themselves one of the qualities traditionally reserved to Deity, they proceed to usurp God's power over life and death. 

"Move over God! I think you're sitting on my throne."

While discussing epistemology -- the discipline that studies "how we know what we think we know?" -- I will mention that very few ancient Israelites identified Jesus as the messiah during his mission 2000 years ago and I suspect the contemporary heirs of those who dismissed him as another "pretender to the throne" now assume he will return in Overwhelming Majesty -- surrounded by polyphonic serafim -- to provide themselves undeniable "salvation assurance."

To forfend any possibility of eternal perdition, these heirs have adopted credal constructs that provide them with fail-safe mechanisms for identifying Yeshua when he "comes again." 

"It may have been to difficult to identify him last time," they reason, "coming as he did in the guise of an itinerant preacher; delighting in the companionship of whores; wine bibblers and traitorous tax collectors; working on the Sabbath and ignoring purificatory rites like washing his hands before meals... but Next time we will be sure to recognize him because The Lord will seek out the company of "good people (like us!) and He will obey all rules and regulations and perhaps most importantly he will be squeaky clean.

"Who Were The Tax Collectors And Shepherds In Jesus' Time"

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Here is the nub: healthy people just don't think about killing infants although George W. Bush's legal counsellor John Yu said the president of the United States can crush a child's testicles to extract information -- whether or not it can be pre-proven that the child has such information -- and Bush vice-president Dick Cheney "would torture people again in a heartbeat."

"Are Republicans Insane?" Best Pax Posts

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-republicans-insane-best-pax-posts.html

The definition of "twisted."

Would Jeb Bush Kill Baby Hitler In His Crib? 

‘Hell yeah, I would’

11/09/15

By Adam Howard

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has weighed in on a popular Internet meme spawned byThe New York Times Magazine — if you had the opportunity to kill Adolf Hitler when he was an infant, would you do it?

The former Florida governor came down strongly in the “kill” camp, telling The Huffington Post’s Scott Conroy: “Hell yeah, I would!”

“You gotta step up, man,” he added. Bush later tweeted the article featuring his answer on Monday, with the comment, “Gotta do it.”

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Bush has been promising to be more assertive and fiery on the campaign trail, but few likely predicted that meant weighing in on altering the future through infanticide. “It could have a dangerous effect on everything else, but I’d do it — I mean, Hitler,” Bush told Conroy, reportedly with a shrug.

In September, while discussing his anti-abortion views during an appearance on Fox News, Bushsaid: “I think we need to have a society that protects life from the beginning to end, and we should be a repentant society for sure.”

“And mercy should be at the heart of everything we do,” he added.

This is not the first time a Republican presidential contender has injected World War II-era speculation into the campaign. Dr. Ben Carson made the controversial assertion last month that had Jews taken up firearms against the Nazis they might have been able to prevent the Holocaust.

Carson later said he never intended to “diminish the enormity” of the systematic slaughter of 6 million Jews.

Meanwhile, The New York Times’ query continues to spawn Internet debates and visual spoofs. The publication’s poll has found that 42% of respondents would kill “baby Hitler” while 30% would not and 28% were not sure.

Huffington Post's coverage of this same story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-on-killing-baby-hitler_5640e1b6e4b0411d3071da54