Humanity is and always will be defined by death. Those who are here now are the descendants of the survivors of countless wars, plagues, and famines; all struggles that, while killing millions, enhanced human capabilities, both individual and collective, leading to the explosion of modernity.
Now, death takes other forms. Perhaps the one most characteristic of modernity is the transmutation of the sex instinct into death with the minimum fuss of intervening human life. Perversion and contraception are, in their ways, forms of this, but it is abortion that most clearly reveals the essence of this equation.
Now, death takes other forms. Perhaps the one most characteristic of modernity is the transmutation of the sex instinct into death with the minimum fuss of intervening human life. Perversion and contraception are, in their ways, forms of this, but it is abortion that most clearly reveals the essence of this equation.
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