Holy fuck. I have a reader that actually comments. Too bad it is nothing more than a troll. How about some REAL conversation buddy, in lieu of these guerrilla tactics? Still, rather than have NO comments... well, there is that engineer from Iran that has left a few... I will post all comments, no matter how outrageous.

Every day I visit One Good Move to see what interesting and provocative things Norm has found for his readers. Today there is an interesting commentary here.

In Book 10 of Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Adam asks the question so many of his descendants have asked: why should the lives of billions be blighted because of a sin he, not they, committed? (“Ah, why should all mankind / For one man’s fault… be condemned?”) He answers himself immediately: “But from me what can proceed, / But all corrupt, both Mind and Will depraved?” Adam’s Original Sin is like an inherited virus.

I agree. Of course, not with the letter of the idea above, but certainly with the spirit. It is my opinion that the only thing that makes us different from one another is the diversity and amounts of natural chemicals each of us has to put up with running through and controlling our systems. This feature, for lack of a better word, of what makes us go is what drives me to put my thoughts here, and of course what drives others to attack my commentary as well as others. My point is that it IS inherited, like a virus, passed down through the ages, all the imperfections that make us human.

Then there is this about a woman that died because her beliefs kept her from receiving medical treatment...

The UK places great emphasis on respecting the religious convictions of patients - and increasingly the doctors who treat them too.

There is nothing medics can do when an adult refuses treatment on religious grounds, says Vivienne Nathanson, head of ethics at the British Medical Association.

I agree that medics SHOULD do nothing when an adult in their right mind refuses treatment. It is sad that a doctrine would keep medical treatment from someone, but individual liberty must supersede any argument the doctors could come up with. Someone like myself could argue that the person is not in their right mind, and therefore the treatment to save the life should be given, but I also believe that a person should always have dominion over how and when their life comes to an end if at all possible.

As for the troll, his comment was this....

Oh, you're one of those free speech for you but not for me people.

I'm really not sure where he/she got the notion I thought the website should be censored, because my opinion is quite the contrary. In fact it is obvious from the contents of their web presence they would censor me if they had to opportunity. To be fair, I did say they wanted to pull Harry Potter from the shelves, and nowhere on the website do they advocate the notion specifically. However, the website is all about censoring, and the fact that they are taking pot shots at me here, rather than the reverse as I practice it here, shows this to be the case. The object over there at safelibraries.org is to keep damaging material away from the kids. One way they justify this need to control other people's children is that 'porn' (and here we are supposed to gasp a nail biting 'oh no'!) is available at the library in YOUR neighborhood, and your child may come across an adult using this material to facilitate the experience of rubbing one out.

My argument is that I am perfectly capable of protecting my child from material or persons I deem inappropriate. To suggest that any adult does not possess these capabilities is to suggest there are enough to justify someone else deciding for all. If this is the case, we are doomed as a species anyway, and any effort would be wasted as we come closer and closer to the end of life as we know it. Fear mongering? Not any more than the message in the trolls den.