Bill Nye, the Pseudo-Science Guy, is at it again. He is
currently hosting a series on Netflix titled, “Bill Nye Saves the World.” A tad
grandiose, no? Certainly not scientifically correct. Was “Chuckles the Clown”
unavailable? Oh, and I thought Barack Obama already saw to that.
At any
rate, Nye recently contemplated the question: should people be penalized for
having “extra” kids? In some respects, they already are, but let’s proceed
anyway. Nye posed the question to a bioethicist at prestigious Johns Hopkins
University, who replied, “I do think that we should at least consider it,” to
which Nye responded, “Well, ‘at least consider it’ is like ‘do it.’”
Bill
Nye, the Eugenics Guy. And “bioethicist?”
No one should be allowed that title if they believe they have the right to
control the size of other people’s families. P.J. O’Rourke, in his seminal 1994
book, “All the Trouble in the World,” sub-titled his chapter on overpopulation:
“Just Enough of Me, Way Too Much of You.” Pithy and perfect.
Why ‘do
it?’ Why penalize Americans for having more kids? They theorize that big
American families may be hurting the environment. That’s funny. There aren’t many large American families. We
are barely at replacement fertility levels. What about big Muslim families or
large families from other places around the world? Are they not detrimental to
the environment?
That
same “bioethicist” stated: “One of the things that we could do that’s kind of
(at) least policy-ish is we could encourage our culture and our norms to change,
right?” They haven’t been? Have you noticed the difference in, say, television
programming over the last number of decades? We’ve gone from “Father Knows
Best” and “Gunsmoke” to “Game of Thrones” and “The Bachelorette,” at the same
time our average family size has shrunk considerably.
What
bureaucrat, or group thereof, will decide how many kids a couple can have?
Would the number be different based on race, ethnic group, creed, religion, or
occupation? Perhaps political affiliation? There’s an intriguing thought! Or
maybe we’d just use the old Chinese model and catapult the vast majority of
girl babies into a swamp? And I thought liberals wanted to get the government out of our bedrooms, wombs, sexual
lives? Either progressives have no conscience, are duped by "con"-science, or both.
How
would non-compliers be penalized? Would they have their gonads summarily
removed with a salad fork? Or just be forced to binge-watch MSNBC? After all,
fake science is now “real” news.
What
would the founders say? And, speaking of Founders, didn’t God tell us to “Go
forth and multiply?”
But Bill
knows better.
He’s
going to save the world.
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