{"id":14602,"date":"2014-01-28T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14602"},"modified":"2014-01-28T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:54:44","slug":"hell-is-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2014\/01\/hell-is-other-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell is other people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simcha Fisher with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2014\/01\/28\/just-enough-gores-and-gateses-too-many-africans\/\">Just enough Gores and Gateses; too many Africans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the interest of environmental responsibility, Al Gore suggests that all African women should bear four children.<\/p>\n<p>This is, at least, what Al Gore surely anticipates when he speaks of \u201cmaking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/101361600\">fertility management ubiquitously available<\/a>\u201d to African women. \u00a0He says that\u00a0\u201dIf you get the health improved, if you get the availability of contraceptives, then families will voluntarily choose to have less children.\u201d \u00a0Surely he and Tipper had good health and access to contraception when they bore their four children.<\/p>\n<p>Following Gore\u2019s example, African women should also, presumably, voluntarily choose to\u00a0live in a 20-room, 10,000 square foot mansion that uses approximately four times more energy than the typical home in the neighborhood. \u00a0In addition, each African mother should maintain a luxury apartment in San Francisco. In order to save the environment, Mr. Gore encourages all African women to take several plane trips every year, and only to charter a private jet \u201cwhen necessary.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just part of the progression of Sartre&#8217;s \u201cHell is other people\u201d to \u201cHell is other people\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post follows this with a look at the the true needs of African families. Hint it\u2019s not more contraception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simcha Fisher with Just enough Gores and Gateses; too many Africans: In the interest of environmental responsibility, Al Gore suggests that all African women should bear four children. This is,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14603,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions\/14603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}