Religion: Communion Toast Crunch

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

JW beliefs are infuriatingly irrational even to other Xtian denoms. They're the antivaxxers of the spiritual world.

I'm sure that the judge's rationale here is that she's too young to decide that for herself and that her parents and church elders have her cowed. But I agree, unless you sign your life away to join the military for 4 years, the government shouldn't get to overrule a decision made between a physician and their patient.*

*And this is where, if we still had righties around here, they'd probably jump in and blather something about socialized medicine, death panels, vaccine mandates, WHARRRGARBL

 

[Kepler]

This is a scientifically illiterate judge, with zero technical or medical experience, privileging her from the hip intuition when it comes to assessing whether the girl is competent to hold philosophical beliefs more profound than the judge's Swanson Dinner conveyor belt rationalism. It is the judge here who is out of her league.

That's wrong when it comes from Thumpers screeching about gender identity care for minors or LGBTQ Storytime, and it's wrong when it comes from otherwise sane people noting the Death Cultists are pinwheel-eyed zealots.

Let Darwin take the wheel, judge. Take the long view for the species. Baby doll's running an experiment. She should see it through. Ironically it will be the only event in her life when she exercises agency. Don't steal that. Everybody dies. Few of us get to die in such an exemplary way as martyrs to the arbitrary memetic lint in our heads.

That little twit has more Meaning in her life than all of us tut-tutting over her ever will. She's an idiot, but she's one of the last human beings not turned into an adding machine. Going out that way is a far nobler death than any of us will manage.

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes; alright. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills, like a god. It is the Ordinary made beautiful: it is also the Average made lethal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health, and I am his priest. My tools are very delicate. My compassion is honest. I have honestly assisted children in this room. I have talked away terrors and relieved many agonies. But also, beyond question, I have cut from the parts of individuality repugnant to this god, in both his aspects.

Parts sacred to rarer and more wonderful gods.