Schweinchen:

As much as I hate to say it there are some people out there who make me think that eugenics might not be such a bad thing....

Hear, hear. Sadly, the only reliable way to find out if somebody is qualified to be a parent is to apply perfect hindsight.

Even if the circumcision were a success, what was the guy going to do with the foreskin?  I think he should have fried it up and fed it to his impoverished family.

This seems the appropriate place for a little story about St. Agnes Blannbekin (d. 1315), a local (Viennese) celebrity:

The Holy Prepuce was a relic unlike any other; According to Bryk (always), it was always the pre-occupation of the female sex and many visions of female saints were connected with this blessed relic. Saint Agnes of Blannbekin felt the very object materialize in a most interesting way. Of course, Saint Agnes had been pre-occupied since childhood with the idea of the Holy Foreskin: She would shed tears of compassion on the day of the Feast of the Circumcision, thinking about all that blood that little Jesus had shed for the Good of Humanity! Then things got a little bit hotter when she grew up and the Holy Prepuce would materialize before her;-) Saint Agnes would recognize that It had materialized, because she could feel a small membrane on her tongue, a membrane full of ecstatic sweetness! When she would touch It with her finger, the sweet membrane (i.e. the Holy Foreskin) would slide down her throat by Itself! It was so sweet, that Saint Agnes felt herelf being tranformed and sensed a sweetness permeate all her body!

I just felt the need to share…

elwed,

Sadly, the only reliable way to find out if somebody is qualified to be a parent is to apply perfect hindsight.

That’s why I’m not that much of a supporter of the notion that parenthood should be restricted.  However, I do think that sometimes we should have some training that all parents-to-be are required to take.  It just seems that there are far too many clueless parents out there, and they raise kids who are little bastards, and not in the good way either....

Many states have required parenting classes for adoption so I don’t see why it would be unrealistic for all parents.  As long as the training doesn’t establish any rigorous guidelines that would infringe upon the wishes of the parents.

I recently heard that the National Head-start Association would like to see the parenting classes offered through the school system become mandatory.  As it stands now only the parents of at risk children are pressured to attend.

SS & DS: This is a largely untractable problem. I don’t believe that more can or should be done than offer lots of carrots and a few big sticks.

This kind of stupidity will never cease, since, as this story clearly demonstrates, they just won’t stop breeding.  In the long run, humanity is doomed anyway, so who cares?

The structure of organized religion lends itself to the ability to provide people with life problems (drug/alcohol addiction, lunacy, etc.) a structure to life and gets them “outside of their self” and the demons within.

Unfortunately I have to agree with Chairbreaker and the other posters, there is no way to control people that have no business raising a human being from doing just that.

Remember to consider the origin of the word,"Fundamentalist", when you use it.  The root of this word is Fundament, which is defined in Webster’s dictionary as meaning “Ass Hole”.