At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life…. people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail…. We conclude the line should be drawn at viability, so that, before that time, the woman has a right to choose to terminate her pregnancy…. there is no line other than viability which is more workable. To be sure, as we have said, there may be some medical developments that affect the precise point of viability, but this is an imprecision within tolerable limits.... A husband has no enforceable right to require a wife to advise him before she exercises her personal choices.- Associate Justice, Anthony Kennedy on Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
Abortion, all in the name of 'personal choice.'
You know what type of art will be praised. Whatever "mystery of human life" will be a mundane talk about exploring one self, if not finding one self. You know what a modern person will think of issues like sex and child-rearing before they even voice their thoughts. How? Because modernists think exactly alike. Modernism brings nothing new, though it thinks it does.
"At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life ... " is an outright subjective appeal. Given in the context it's horrible. Isolating the quote reveals meaningless, only sounding better than a angsty tumblr post about identity issues.
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