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Jill: No Compassion

Posted on | January 9, 2010 | 18 Comments

by Smitty

Jill Brooke at PuffHo asks: “Where Is the Compassion for Men Who Get Saddled With Kids They Didn’t Want?”

Wikipedia elaborates on this idea of compassion:

Compassion is a human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another’s suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. In ethical terms, the various expressions down the ages of the so-called Golden Rule embody by implication the principle of compassion: Do to others what you would have them do to you.

Call me weird, but, if I’ve been an idiot, I want to feel some negative feedback:

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Prov 9:8

Jill Brooke, full of the Socialist Peter Pan Syndrome, enjoys that dreaming cluelessness about life to the fullest:

It’s got to hurt when you’re pregnant and your boyfriend breaks up with you and months later marries someone else. In their private moments, both actress Bridget Moynahan and venture capitalist Claire Milonas can’t even say their guy was commitment phobic. But you can say that maybe these women were a bit selfish in having a child knowing that the father would not be present.

It should hurt. If an overgrown boy is spraying his seed about like a dog in an alley, and a woman has so little self-esteem as to reward that boy sexually, then, yes: there may be some emotional side effects. Moynahan and Milonas and ever other wench deserves to be stigmatized as such. And these overgrown boys, if anything, moreso.

Jill’s article dribbles on predictably, with a lackluster attempt at reclama on marriage:

Marriage is still the connective glue that keeps society together. Children benefit from its structure. Even divorced children take comfort in knowing that their parents were once married.

Marriage is a spiritual gift from the Almighty. Before the children benefit from it, the parents benefit from the genuine commitment involved.  Does Jill grasp that the “connective glue” of marriage not only keeps society together, but that the divorce has a continual corrosive effect on everyone involved?

The interesting question to float is whether a Jill Brooke is just a simpleton, spouting existential falsehood from sheer ignorance, or if she’s more diabolical in her outlook.  The inability to enforce justice in relationships, to treat sexuality as a wonderful gift in its proper context, and to stigmatize wrong behavior in men and women, is as bad as the inability to enforce justice in the legal system.

Jill, you are a source of problems, not improvements.  Those children are blessings from the Almighty on loan, and are to be treated as such.

Category: Culture

Comments

18 Responses to “Jill: No Compassion”

  1. Joe
    January 10th, 2010 @ 4:57 am

    If you get a girl pregnant, at a minimum, you should step up to the plate, be a man, and act like a good father. And while I would not go so far as you must marry the girl (we all make mistakes and every situation is unique and I have seen a few of these sorts of marriages go badly) you should certainly seriously consider it. But if you don’t, you still better be there for your kid, be a gentleman, and act appropriately.

  2. Joe
    January 10th, 2010 @ 4:57 am

    If you get a girl pregnant, at a minimum, you should step up to the plate, be a man, and act like a good father. And while I would not go so far as you must marry the girl (we all make mistakes and every situation is unique and I have seen a few of these sorts of marriages go badly) you should certainly seriously consider it. But if you don’t, you still better be there for your kid, be a gentleman, and act appropriately.

  3. Joe
    January 9th, 2010 @ 11:57 pm

    If you get a girl pregnant, at a minimum, you should step up to the plate, be a man, and act like a good father. And while I would not go so far as you must marry the girl (we all make mistakes and every situation is unique and I have seen a few of these sorts of marriages go badly) you should certainly seriously consider it. But if you don’t, you still better be there for your kid, be a gentleman, and act appropriately.

  4. Joe
    January 10th, 2010 @ 4:58 am

    And that means on all levels: emotionally, financially, time commitment, etc.

  5. Joe
    January 10th, 2010 @ 4:58 am

    And that means on all levels: emotionally, financially, time commitment, etc.

  6. Joe
    January 9th, 2010 @ 11:58 pm

    And that means on all levels: emotionally, financially, time commitment, etc.

  7. Wombat-socho
    January 10th, 2010 @ 5:11 am

    Everything I have to say on this subject has already been said by Johnny Rotten.

  8. Wombat-socho
    January 10th, 2010 @ 5:11 am

    Everything I have to say on this subject has already been said by Johnny Rotten.

  9. Wombat-socho
    January 10th, 2010 @ 12:11 am

    Everything I have to say on this subject has already been said by Johnny Rotten.

  10. Joe
    January 10th, 2010 @ 9:21 am

    Avatar is not some fluke. Like Kubrick’s The Shining, Avatar is a film with deep and powerful symbolism. But merely Gaia worship it is not it.

    James Cameron used to be married to Linda Hamilton. Signorey smokes in the film. Guess who else used to smoke. Coincidence? I think not.

    Linda Hamilton has a career and a specific job before she worked with Jim Cameron in the Terminator.

    Separated at birth? Or the love child that was never acknowledged?

    Oh yes, Mr. Cameron is working through a few issues. Now that is art!

  11. Joe
    January 10th, 2010 @ 9:21 am

    Avatar is not some fluke. Like Kubrick’s The Shining, Avatar is a film with deep and powerful symbolism. But merely Gaia worship it is not it.

    James Cameron used to be married to Linda Hamilton. Signorey smokes in the film. Guess who else used to smoke. Coincidence? I think not.

    Linda Hamilton has a career and a specific job before she worked with Jim Cameron in the Terminator.

    Separated at birth? Or the love child that was never acknowledged?

    Oh yes, Mr. Cameron is working through a few issues. Now that is art!

  12. Joe
    January 10th, 2010 @ 4:21 am

    Avatar is not some fluke. Like Kubrick’s The Shining, Avatar is a film with deep and powerful symbolism. But merely Gaia worship it is not it.

    James Cameron used to be married to Linda Hamilton. Signorey smokes in the film. Guess who else used to smoke. Coincidence? I think not.

    Linda Hamilton has a career and a specific job before she worked with Jim Cameron in the Terminator.

    Separated at birth? Or the love child that was never acknowledged?

    Oh yes, Mr. Cameron is working through a few issues. Now that is art!

  13. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 11th, 2010 @ 6:48 am

    It’s got to hurt when you’re pregnant and your boyfriend breaks up with you and months later marries someone else.

    Practical reason #2,281 that premarital sex is a bad idea.

    Larger question in all this: where is the compassion for the children, who certainly did not ask to be conceived to parents who don’t want them? This ties into the larger issue: once you start having sex, you are dealing with the distinct possibility that you might be creating another human being and that human being is also deserving of compassion, love, a stable home, and good parents who care about him.

    Just saying.

  14. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 11th, 2010 @ 6:48 am

    It’s got to hurt when you’re pregnant and your boyfriend breaks up with you and months later marries someone else.

    Practical reason #2,281 that premarital sex is a bad idea.

    Larger question in all this: where is the compassion for the children, who certainly did not ask to be conceived to parents who don’t want them? This ties into the larger issue: once you start having sex, you are dealing with the distinct possibility that you might be creating another human being and that human being is also deserving of compassion, love, a stable home, and good parents who care about him.

    Just saying.

  15. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 11th, 2010 @ 1:48 am

    It’s got to hurt when you’re pregnant and your boyfriend breaks up with you and months later marries someone else.

    Practical reason #2,281 that premarital sex is a bad idea.

    Larger question in all this: where is the compassion for the children, who certainly did not ask to be conceived to parents who don’t want them? This ties into the larger issue: once you start having sex, you are dealing with the distinct possibility that you might be creating another human being and that human being is also deserving of compassion, love, a stable home, and good parents who care about him.

    Just saying.

  16. The Javelineer
    January 12th, 2010 @ 1:03 am

    Women are more responsible for the creation of babies than men. This is true in all cases of sexual relations, marital, pre-marital, and post-marital.

    This was once a commonplace in Western society. Indeed, in all societies. Only women get pregnant. Women are the gatekeepers of their own uterus. Since only women get pregnant, all societies throughout history have put a lot more emphasis on chastity in women than in men. This was perfectly sensible, and it still is. the sexual double standard is rational and sensible.

    Under the law, only the pregnant woman has rights over her fetus. Rights and responsibilities must be concomitant, by a commonplace of justice. In any social matter, who lacks rights, also lacks responsibilities. Women can lie, legally, about their reproductive status to entice men into procreating a fetus inside the woman. The man still has no rights whatsoever. Under modern law, it is unjust to expect or demand that men take equal responsibility for the creation of a fetus, since men have absolutely no concomitant rights.

    As a practical matter, a lack of rights will always be accompanied by evasion of responsibility. The current legal regime assigns men half responsibility and none of the rights to a fetus or even a child. A fetus and a child belong to the woman. This is true even in marriage.

    All children sired in a marriage are considered to be the husband’s. Millions of men are paying child support for children that they didn’t sire. Husbands are required to pay child support for children conceived by their wives in infidelity. Only a fool would marry when the law gives women such power.

    Who can be surprised that men evade responsibility? Who can be surprised that women deceive or that women have abdicated their age old responsibility for their own body?

    Blaming men for the ravages of the sexual revolution is wrong. Women are the problem. Always have been.

  17. The Javelineer
    January 12th, 2010 @ 1:03 am

    Women are more responsible for the creation of babies than men. This is true in all cases of sexual relations, marital, pre-marital, and post-marital.

    This was once a commonplace in Western society. Indeed, in all societies. Only women get pregnant. Women are the gatekeepers of their own uterus. Since only women get pregnant, all societies throughout history have put a lot more emphasis on chastity in women than in men. This was perfectly sensible, and it still is. the sexual double standard is rational and sensible.

    Under the law, only the pregnant woman has rights over her fetus. Rights and responsibilities must be concomitant, by a commonplace of justice. In any social matter, who lacks rights, also lacks responsibilities. Women can lie, legally, about their reproductive status to entice men into procreating a fetus inside the woman. The man still has no rights whatsoever. Under modern law, it is unjust to expect or demand that men take equal responsibility for the creation of a fetus, since men have absolutely no concomitant rights.

    As a practical matter, a lack of rights will always be accompanied by evasion of responsibility. The current legal regime assigns men half responsibility and none of the rights to a fetus or even a child. A fetus and a child belong to the woman. This is true even in marriage.

    All children sired in a marriage are considered to be the husband’s. Millions of men are paying child support for children that they didn’t sire. Husbands are required to pay child support for children conceived by their wives in infidelity. Only a fool would marry when the law gives women such power.

    Who can be surprised that men evade responsibility? Who can be surprised that women deceive or that women have abdicated their age old responsibility for their own body?

    Blaming men for the ravages of the sexual revolution is wrong. Women are the problem. Always have been.

  18. The Javelineer
    January 11th, 2010 @ 8:03 pm

    Women are more responsible for the creation of babies than men. This is true in all cases of sexual relations, marital, pre-marital, and post-marital.

    This was once a commonplace in Western society. Indeed, in all societies. Only women get pregnant. Women are the gatekeepers of their own uterus. Since only women get pregnant, all societies throughout history have put a lot more emphasis on chastity in women than in men. This was perfectly sensible, and it still is. the sexual double standard is rational and sensible.

    Under the law, only the pregnant woman has rights over her fetus. Rights and responsibilities must be concomitant, by a commonplace of justice. In any social matter, who lacks rights, also lacks responsibilities. Women can lie, legally, about their reproductive status to entice men into procreating a fetus inside the woman. The man still has no rights whatsoever. Under modern law, it is unjust to expect or demand that men take equal responsibility for the creation of a fetus, since men have absolutely no concomitant rights.

    As a practical matter, a lack of rights will always be accompanied by evasion of responsibility. The current legal regime assigns men half responsibility and none of the rights to a fetus or even a child. A fetus and a child belong to the woman. This is true even in marriage.

    All children sired in a marriage are considered to be the husband’s. Millions of men are paying child support for children that they didn’t sire. Husbands are required to pay child support for children conceived by their wives in infidelity. Only a fool would marry when the law gives women such power.

    Who can be surprised that men evade responsibility? Who can be surprised that women deceive or that women have abdicated their age old responsibility for their own body?

    Blaming men for the ravages of the sexual revolution is wrong. Women are the problem. Always have been.