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They Steal Children, Don't They?
Nov. 4th, 2009 02:31 pm"And why in the world any of us steal a child away from a mother who loves it?"
"But you do have them, I've seen dozens with their nursemaids while I was here."
"Oh, we did not steal those. They were freely offered. In all times and all places there have been mothers to whom babies are a burden. Perhaps she needed money to feed her other children."
"That's horrible, you shouldn't take advantage of poor mothers like that."
"Horrible? We take children no one else wants. We take them all regardless of the color of their skin or misshapen limbs, giving them every advantage that our world can offer them, and that is horrible? I think perhaps the human definition of horror is different than our own."
"But you do have them, I've seen dozens with their nursemaids while I was here."
"Oh, we did not steal those. They were freely offered. In all times and all places there have been mothers to whom babies are a burden. Perhaps she needed money to feed her other children."
"That's horrible, you shouldn't take advantage of poor mothers like that."
"Horrible? We take children no one else wants. We take them all regardless of the color of their skin or misshapen limbs, giving them every advantage that our world can offer them, and that is horrible? I think perhaps the human definition of horror is different than our own."