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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:00 AM

Stating the obvious

Nature doesn't care about the emotional well-being of older people. It's about the continuation of the species -- in other words, children.
By Garrison Keillor

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  • Tuesday, March 13, 2007 09:17 PM

    wow

    I guess many of us have closets full of ignorance and bigotry, but not all of us choose to open it for an audience like Keillor does here.

    Just because something is "natural" does not make it right or wrong; Hume settled this philosophical issue over two hundred years ago. Having children and passing along genes might be a "goal" of natural selection but that's a descriptive evaluation, not a moral one.

    And I'm not even going to go into Keillor's borderline slurs against homosexuality.

    —David

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