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As I sip on the sweet nectar of my orange juice for which I have a fetish to drink only at nights, I thought to myself what ‘Freedom at midnight’ might have really sounded like over the declining glass of OJ!
Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pulp, not wholly or in a full glass, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, orange juice will awaken me to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we have to decide between Calafornia oranges and Florida oranges, from the old to the new, when a glass ends, and when the soul of a solitary orange, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the drink the juice regardless of the type.
Slurp slurp.
All additives are purely fictitious and have no relation to whether or not Nehru consumed OJ. Anyway at such troubled times choice between most pulp, pulp, medium pulp, no pulp, calcium with pulp, calcium without pulp, vitamins pulp must have created more communal violence than that caused by partition.
I’m taking a peek into the world of podcasts after a long long time. I took up a long drawn interest of mine – philosophy. I stumbled upon an interesting question- can one equate infanticide and abortion? Are the two choices sufficently ‘moral’ ones? What decides morality? I thought I might try to first form my own opinions before listening to people who have thought about this in greater detail.
I think its quite easy for a biologist to look at an embryo as a mass of cells and regardless of the organism that the embryo pertains to, its still a mass of cells.Wherein abortion is practised, the baby has not yet had any kind of development and if I might say may not even show sufficently formed features that might distinguish it as being human. (I wont get into the abortion debate out here- which would tread upon the borders of pro- choice, and the ethical debate over the value of human life)
What about infanticide? At a conscientious level, my instincts tell me that I would more likely vote against infanticide. (Keep in mind that infanticide is not gender specific. Of course I think I can quite clearly take a stand if it was!) But what reasons do I have against infanticide? Can I make a rational argument as to why infanticide is different from abortion? I can already see grey borders start to appear amidst the seemingly black and white background.
If I were to play Devil’s advocate, a bortion or infanticide, the child has no say over his life. The human organism is alive from the moment the embryo is formed so it doesn’t make sense to make an argument based on a ‘more alive’ state versus one that is less alive.
But then again, what about personal choice? Pain? The urge to cry when the knife surges through?
Choices. There is always more than one.
